Supreme Motors Corporation

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Supreme Motors Corporation
legal form Corporation
founding 1917
resolution 1922
Reason for dissolution Bankrupt
Seat Warren , Ohio , USA
Branch Engines , automobiles

Supreme Motors Corporation was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded in the summer of 1917 to produce engines. Five people who were previously active in the industry were involved. BJ Cline previously worked for Chandler , Pierce-Arrow and ER Thomas Motor Car Company , Charles H. Davids and CE Manning in the engine business, CJ Jamison for Elgin Motors and Saxon Motor Car Corporation, and CN Mitchell for Chandler and Lozier Motor Company . The seat was initially in Cleveland , from 1918 in Ashtabula and later in Warren . All of these places are in Ohio . The company mainly manufactured engines. Some automobiles were also made. They were called the Supreme . In the summer of 1922 there were rumors of a merger with the Colonial Motors Company of Warren or the Apperson Brothers Automobile Company of Kokomo , Indiana .

At the end of 1922 it went bankrupt . The Sterling Knight Company took over the plant.

Products

The company made four , six and twelve cylinder engines. The customers were Birch Motor Cars , Globe Motors Company , A. Howard Company , American Motors Export Company , Southern Motor Manufacturing Association and Associated Motors Corporation .

The few passenger cars that were manufactured themselves had their own engines.

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. 1451 (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. 1451 (English).
  2. ↑ Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry . McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864-0972-3 , pp. 277 (English).