Stringer Automobile Company

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Stringer Automobile Company
legal form Company
founding 1900
resolution 1902
Seat Marion , Ohio , USA
management John W. Stringer
Branch Automobiles

Stringer Automobile Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

John W. Stringer resigned as superintendent of the Marion Manufacturing Company in 1899 . He then developed motor vehicles in the same year. In February 1900 he founded the company in Marion , Ohio, together with Horatio Chisholm and James H. Leonard . Then the marketing began. The brand name was Stringer . Production ended in 1902 when the money ran out.

vehicles

In 1899 prototypes of an electric car and a vehicle with a gasoline engine were created .

A steam car appeared in the summer of 1900 . It had a four- cylinder steam engine . Gasoline cars followed in December 1900. Both types of drive were in the range up to the point of production. One illustration shows a steam car as a two-seater runabout .

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. ↑ 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. ↑ 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).