Strong & Rogers

Strong & Rogers
legal form
founding	1900
resolution	1901
Seat	Cleveland , Ohio , USA
management	Edwin L. Strong
Branch	Automobiles

Strong & Rogers was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Edwin L. Strong and Lewis H. Rogers founded the company in Cleveland , Ohio , in 1900 . In the same year the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Strong & Rogers . In September 1900, vehicles were presented at the Chicago Inter-Ocean Tournament and in November 1900 at the first automobile show in Madison Square Garden in New York City . In March 1901 Rogers had to leave the company due to illness. Strong went on alone for a few months. Production ended in 1901.

vehicles

Only electric cars were on offer . An electric motor with 2.5 hp was mounted on the rear axle and drove the right rear wheel. The 40 cell batteries came from Willard . They allegedly could be charged in 45 minutes and allowed a range of 48 to 64 km at a speed of 26 km / h. The transmission offered six forward and four reverse gears. Runabout and Stanhope have been handed down as body designs . The new prices were 1200 US dollars for the standard version and 2,000 dollars for the luxury version.

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. 1409 (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. 1526 (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. 1409 (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. 1526 (English).