Vandegrift Automobile Company

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Vandegrift Automobile Company
legal form Company
founding 1906
resolution 1907
Seat Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , USA
management
  • Henry G. Morris
  • Pedro G. Salom
Branch Automobiles

Vandegrift Automobile Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Henry G. Morris and Pedro G. Salom had already manufactured motor vehicles between 1894 and 1897 at their Morris & Salom company in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania . In 1906 they made a second attempt. To do this, they founded a new company in the same city in the summer of 1906. They started with the production of automobiles. The brand name was Autocycle . Production ended at the end of 1907.

vehicles

The only model had an unusual wheel arrangement. The single front wheel was steered, the single rear wheel was driven, while two smaller wheels in the middle of the vehicle were supposed to balance the vehicle . An air-cooled two-cylinder engine with 6 HP power drove the rear wheel via belts. The wheelbase was 191 cm and the curb weight 172 kg.

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. 86 (English).
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 1: A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 114. (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. 86 (English).
  2. ↑ George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 114. (English)