Sterling Knight Company

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Sterling-Knight Syndicate
Sterling-Knight Motor Company
Sterling-Knight Company
legal form Company
founding 1920
resolution 1926
Reason for dissolution Bankrupt
Seat Warren , Ohio , USA
Branch Automobiles

Sterling-Knight Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles . Initially, the company traded as Sterling-Knight Syndicate and Sterling-Knight Motor Company . Another source states a different from Sterling-Knight Motors Company .

Company history

James G. Sterling was a long-time chief engineer with FB Stearns Company . In 1920 he left Stearns. Together with some business people from Cleveland , Ohio , he founded Sterling-Knight Syndicate there . He started with the production of automobiles. The brand name was Sterling-Knight . Three vehicles were built in the first year. It was launched at the Chicago Salon in December 1920. The company also exhibited at the Cleveland Automobile Show in January 1921.

In April 1921 the name was changed to Sterling-Knight Motor Company . In April 1922 a factory of the Accurate Machine Company was taken over. Production ended for the time being in 1922. About 50 vehicles were built in Cleveland.

In May 1923, the Sterling Knight Company followed, based in Warren , also in Ohio. To this end, the factory of the engine manufacturer Supreme Motors Corporation was taken over. Vehicles were manufactured again from summer 1923. 253 vehicles were built in 1924 and 121 in the following year. In that year financial problems began. Production continued on a small scale. In December 1926 it went bankrupt .

Another source gives about 500 vehicles for both places together.

vehicles

Knight in the brand name was a reference to a valve motor made by Charles Yale Knight . It was a six-cylinder engine . The chassis initially had a wheelbase of 340 cm .

An engine output of 78 hp has been handed down from 1923 . The wheelbase was now 318 cm. Phillips Custom Body Company made the bodies. First there was a Phaeton with five seats, Sporting Type with four seats, Brougham with four seats and a sedan with five seats. At the end of 1924, a four-seater offset coupé was added for the 1925 model year .

Overview of car brands from the US, the Sterling include

brand Manufacturer Marketing start End of marketing Location, state
Ams sterling Amston Motor Car Company 1917 1918 Bridgeport, Connecticut
sterling Sterling Automobile & Engine Company 1901 1902 Sterling, Illinois
sterling Springfield Cornice Works 1901 1901 Springfield, Massachusetts
sterling Sterling Machine Works 1909 1909 Sterling, Illinois
sterling Elkhart Motor Car Company 1909 1911 Elkhart, Indiana
sterling Sterling Motor Car Company 1915 1916 Brockton, Massachusetts
sterling Consolidated Motor Car Company (Connecticut) 1920 1920 Middlefield, Connecticut
Sterling Knight Sterling Knight Company 1920 1926 Warren, Ohio
Sterling New York Sterling Automobile Manufacturing Company 1915 1916 New York City, New York

literature

  • Beverly Rae Kimes, Henry Austin Clark Jr .: Standard catalog of American Cars. 1805-1942. Digital edition . 3. Edition. Krause Publications, Iola 2013, ISBN 978-1-4402-3778-2 , pp. 1398 (English).
  • George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1510 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Beverly Rae Kimes, Henry Austin Clark Jr .: Standard catalog of American Cars. 1805-1942. Digital edition . 3. Edition. Krause Publications, Iola 2013, ISBN 978-1-4402-3778-2 , pp. 1398 (English).
  2. ↑ a b George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1510 (English).