YF Stewart Motor Manufacturing Company

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Coats Steamers Inc.
Coats Steam Car Company
Y. F. Stewart Motor Manufacturing Company
legal form Company
founding 1921
resolution 1923
Seat Bowling Green , Ohio , USA
management George A. Coats
Branch Automobiles

YF Stewart Motor Manufacturing Company , previously Coats Steamers Inc. and Coats Steam Car Company , was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

George A. Coats designed a steam car in early 1921 . The market launch was announced for March 1921. The production of automobiles began. The brand name was Coats . It was not until September 1921 that Coats founded Coats Steamers Inc. in Columbus , Ohio . A little later the name was changed to Coats Steam Car Company . In 1922 the company moved to Bowling Green , also in Ohio. There it came to the merger with the Stewart Motor Car Company to the YF Stewart Motor Manufacturing Company . The vehicles were now occasionally referred to as Coats-Stewart , Stewart-Coats and Clermont Steamer . Production ended in 1923. A total of around twelve vehicles were built.

vehicles

A steam engine with three cylinders propelled the vehicles. Bodies as touring cars , roadsters and sedans are mentioned .

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. 347 (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. 320. (English)

Web links

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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. 347 (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. 320. (English)