Stover Motor Car Company

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Stover Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1909
resolution 1909
Seat Freeport , Illinois , USA
management DC stover
Branch Automobiles

Stover Motor Car Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

As early as 1905, DC Stover had tried in vain to bring Phoenix brand automobiles onto the market. He then ran the Stover Manufacturing Company in Freeport , Illinois to manufacture engines. In 1909 he founded the separate company for automobile production. The brand name was Stover . Vehicle production ended in the same year. Overall, only a few motor vehicles were built .

In December 1909, Stover sold the machines to Buda Engine Co. , but continued to use the factory for his main business.

vehicles

The passenger cars had a gasoline engine . An inspection car for rail vehicles was also built.

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. 1406 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c 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. 1406 (English).
  2. ↑ Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry . McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864-0972-3 , pp. 274 (English).