Stratton Carriage Body Company

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Stratton Carriage Body Company
legal form Company
founding 1899
resolution 1913
Reason for dissolution Death of the owner
Seat Muncie , Indiana , USA
management Charles Henry Stratton
Branch vehicles

Stratton Carriage Body Company was an American manufacturer of vehicles .

Company history

Charles Henry Stratton founded the company in Muncie , Indiana in 1899 . The predecessor companies are Charles H. Stratton from 1872 to 1874 in Monroeton , Pennsylvania, and the CH Stratton Carriage Company from 1875 to 1892 in Salem , Ohio, and from 1891 to 1895 in Buffalo , New York . He made carriages . In February 1909, the production of automobiles began . The brand name was Stratton . Motor vehicle production ended in the same year.

In 1913 the company was dissolved after Stratton died.

Motor vehicles

Highwheelers were on offer . They had a two-cylinder engine that was mounted under a hood at the front . It made 14 hp . It drove the rear axle via a two-speed planetary gear and two chains. The chassis had a 229 cm wheelbase . The tire size was 36 inches at the front and 38 inches at the rear. Was steered with a steering wheel .

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. 1408 (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. 1525 (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. 1408 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c 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. 1525 (English).
  3. ↑ a b c d Mark Theobald: www.coachbuilt.com (English, accessed on March 16, 2019)