Sturtevant Mill Company

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Sturtevant Mill Company
legal form Company
founding 1883
resolution 1920
Seat Dorchester , Massachusetts , USA
Branch Mechanical engineering , automobiles

Sturtevant Mill Company was an American company in the engineering and manufacture of automobiles .

Company history

Thomas L. Sturtevant founded the company in the state of Maine in 1883 . At the end of the 19th century he moved the headquarters to Dorchester near Boston in Massachusetts .

In 1902 and 1904 two automobile prototypes were made . Series production began in 1905. The brand name was Sturtevant . Laurence H. Sturtevant, son of the founder, and TJ Sturtevant, nephew of the founder and also a trained engineer, were the driving forces behind the company's vehicle construction. Vehicle production ended in 1907.

Sturtevant Inc. sees itself as the successor company. This company was founded on March 30, 1920. In 1998 he moved to Hanover .

vehicles

The special feature of the vehicles was the power transmission. It was a three-speed transmission that resembled an automatic transmission .

In 1905 there was only the Six . The six-cylinder engine was specified with 40/45 hp . The chassis had a wheelbase of 274 cm . The structure was a tonneau with side access.

From 1906 to 1907 there were two models with four-cylinder engines in the range. In the Flying Roadster it was specified with 30/35 hp. The wheelbase was 249 cm. The cars were bodied as roadsters with two and three seats. There was also the automatic . Its engine was specified with 40/50 hp. The wheelbase was 305 cm. The open body as a touring car offered space for seven people.

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1905 Six 6th 40/45 274 Side entrance tonneau
1906-1907 Flying Roadster 4th 30/35 249 Roadster 2-seat and 3-seat
1906-1907 Automatic 4th 40/50 305 7-seater touring car

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. 1441-1442 (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. 1534 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g 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. 1441-1442 (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. 1534 (English).
  3. ↑ a b c The Story of Sturtevant Inc. (accessed March 16, 2019)
  4. ↑ a b www.opencorporates.com on Sturtevant Inc. (English, accessed on March 16, 2019)