US Motor Car Company

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US Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1907
resolution 1908
Seat Upper Sandusky , Ohio , USA
Branch Automobiles

US Motor Car Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded in Upper Sandusky , Ohio , in 1907 . Automobile production began in the summer of 1907. The brand name was US . After just six months, production ended in 1907.

vehicles

Only Model A was on offer . It had a four-cylinder engine with air cooling . 82.55 mm bore and stroke each resulted in a displacement of 1767 cm³ . The engine developed 12 hp . It drove the rear axle via a three-speed gearbox and a cardan shaft . The chassis was made of wood . The wheelbase was initially 229 cm and later 244 cm. The setup was a runabout with two seats. The original price rose from initially 750 US dollars to 900 dollars.

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. 1491 (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. 1645 (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. 1491 (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. 1645 (English).