Summit Carriage-Mobile Company

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Summit Carriage-Mobile Company
legal form Company
founding 1907
resolution 1909
Seat Waterloo , Iowa , USA
Branch Automobiles

Summit Carriage-Mobile Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded in Waterloo , Iowa in 1907 . In the same year the production of automobiles began. The brand name was initially Farmer-Mobile and from 1908 Summit . Production ended in 1909.

vehicles

Summit used special motors. There were one , two , three and four-cylinder engines that developed between 8 and 40 hp . However, it is unclear whether all four engines were actually used for the vehicles.

Highwheelers were on offer . A single-cylinder engine with a 133.35 mm bore , 127 mm stroke , 1774 cm³ displacement and 10 HP output has been handed down. He drove the rear axle. A differential gear is explicitly handed down. The turntable steering was completely out of date. The open body offered space for two people.

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. 559 and p. 1449 (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. 1541 (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. 559 and p. 1449 (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. 1541 (English).