Yankee Motor Car Company

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Yankee Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1910
resolution 1910
Seat Chicago , Illinois , USA
Branch Automobiles

Yankee Motor Car Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company from Chicago , Illinois produced a number of automobiles in 1910. The brand name was Yankee . A source suggests that Vincent Hugo Bendix was involved as a manager.

vehicles

Highwheelers were on offer . With their big wheels, they were well suited for the bad roads of the time. They had an air-cooled two-cylinder engine that made 16 hp . 114.3 mm bore and 107.95 mm stroke resulted in a displacement of 2215 cm³ . Mounting as a front engine was unusual for a highwheeler . It drove the rear axle via a two-speed planetary gear . The chassis had a wheelbase of 254 cm .

The MB model was called the High Wheel Buggy and had solid rubber tires . The RR model as a sporty Racy Roadster had pneumatic tires.

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. 1577 (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. 1774 (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. 1577 (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. 1774 (English).