Superior Automobile Company

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Superior Automobile Company
legal form Company
founding 1902
resolution 1902
Seat Cleveland , Ohio , USA
management IH Lewis
Branch Automobiles

Superior Automobile Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles . Another source gives the name Superion Motor Carriage Company , where Superion is obviously a typo. Another source confirms the formation of a Superior Motor Carriage Company .

Company history

IH Lewis was active in the field of bicycles . It remains unclear whether he was a manufacturer, dealer, workshop manager or racing cyclist. He founded the automobile production company in 1902. The seat was on Clara Street in Cleveland , Ohio . In the same year he manufactured several automobiles. The brand name was Superior .

There was no association with Briggs & Stratton and the Crescent Motor Car Company , which used the same brand name a few years later.

vehicles

The vehicles had a single cylinder engine . They were bodied as a 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. 1450 (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. 1450 (English).
  2. ↑ Automobile Manufacturers of Cleveland and Ohio, 1864–1942 (accessed March 16, 2019)
  3. ↑ Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry . McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864-0972-3 , pp. 277 (English).
  4. ↑ The Horseless Age (accessed March 16, 2019)