Wiemeyer (automobile manufacturer)

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Wiemeyer
legal form
founding 1900
resolution 1900
Seat St. Louis , Missouri , USA
management JL Wiemeyer
Branch Automobiles

Wiemeyer was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

JL Wiemeyer headed the company based in St. Louis , Missouri . In 1900 he made some automobiles. The brand name was Wiemeyer .

He later ran a dealership selling vehicles from Apperson Brothers Automobile Company , Ford and Ames .

vehicles

Wiemeyer manufactured many parts himself.

The first vehicle had a two - cylinder boxer engine . It drove the rear axle via a two-speed planetary gear and a chain. The structure was called a buggy.

The second vehicle had a three - cylinder two-stroke engine . The body offered space for four people.

This was followed by four more vehicles with a four-cylinder engine and various bodies.

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. 1543 (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. 1543 (English).
  2. ↑ Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry . McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864-0972-3 , pp. 304 (English).