The Overholt Company

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The Overholt Company
legal form Company
founding 1908
resolution 1914
Seat Galesburg , Illinois , USA
management Ed Overholt
Branch Automobiles

The Overholt Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Ed Overholt held the position of secretary and treasurer at the Wenzelmann Manufacturing Company in Galesburg . He left the company in 1908 and started his own company in the same town. In 1909 the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Overholt the first year , then Illinois . AL Nelson made the bodies. Vehicle production ended in 1912. Ten vehicles have survived for 1909, 15 for 1910, and around 50 for the period thereafter.

In August 1912, Overholt bought blueprints, many parts, and possibly the assets of the Reeves Pulley Company , which had made gasoline engines . Now he made engines, horns and other vehicle accessories.

In 1914 a fire destroyed the plant. Then the track of the company is lost.

vehicles

Brand name Overholt

The only model had an air-cooled two-cylinder engine with 12 hp and chain drive. The chassis had a wheelbase of 218 cm . Superstructures were roadsters with two and four seats.

Brand name Illinois

The vehicles were bigger and more powerful. In 1910 there was a 30 HP . It had a four-cylinder Reeves engine with 30 hp. The wheelbase was 279 cm. There was a choice of a touring car with five seats and a baby tonneau with four seats.

The 35/40 HP appeared in 1911 . The four-cylinder engine was water-cooled this time and came from Waukesha Engines . It was specified with 35/40 hp. The wheelbase was extended to 305 cm. The body range corresponded to the previous year's model with the exception of an additional five-seater semi- torpedo .

1912 was Model G called. The engine and wheelbase remained unchanged. Touring cars with five seats, roadsters with two and four seats, coupé and sedan were available. In addition, a second model was introduced with the Model K. Its four-cylinder engine was specified with 25.6 hp. The wheelbase was 272 cm. The only structure was a touring car with five seats.

Model overview

year brand model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1909 Overhauled 2 12 218 Roadster 2-seat and 4-seat
1910 Illinois 30 HP 4th 30th 279 5-seater touring car, 4-seater Baby Tonneau
1911 Illinois 35/40 HP 4th 35/40 305 Touring car 5-seater, Baby Tonneau 4-seater, Semi-Torpedo 5-seater
1912 Illinois Model G 4th 35/40 305 5-seater touring car, 2-seater and 4-seater roadster, coupé, limousine
1912 Illinois Model K 4th 25.6 272 5-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. 764 (English).
  • George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 2: G-O . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 749 (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. 764 (English).
  2. ↑ George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 2: G-O . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 749 (English).