United Engineering Company

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United Engineering Company
legal form Company
founding 1919
resolution 1920
Seat Greensburg , Indiana , USA
Branch Automobiles

United Engineering Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

WS Reed, who previously ran the WS Reed Company , founded the company in the summer of 1919 with Frank Hamilton and Will G. Smiley. The seat was in Greensburg , Indiana . Production began in the same year. One source states that only chassis were made. Another source mentions complete vehicles. The brand name was United . Production ended in 1920.

There was no association with the National United Service Company , which used the same brand name for its passenger cars in 1914 .

vehicles

Many of the parts were bought in. This is how the four-cylinder Herschell-Spillman engine came about . Further suppliers were Carter for the carburetor , Berling for magnetos , Dyneto for the electrics, Bendix for the starter , Prest-O-Lite for the starter batteries , Borg & Beck for the clutches , Muncie for the gearbox, Peru for the rear axles and Stewart for the Speedometer . The chassis was called the Model G-58 .

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. 1489 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 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. 1489 (English).
  2. ↑ a b Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry . McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864-0972-3 , pp. 290 (English).