Zent (automobile manufacturer)

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Cent
legal form
founding 1900
resolution 1902
Seat Marion , Ohio , USA
management Schuyler W. Zent
Branch Automobiles

Zent was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Schuyler W. Zent ran the company as a mechanical workshop. The seat was in Marion , Ohio . In 1900 he completed his first automobile. By 1902 he produced and sold four more vehicles. The brand name was Zent .

In 1902 he designed a new model. He did not succeed in initiating series production himself. He then moved to Evansville , Indiana . There the Single Center Spring Company built the vehicles for him. In 1904 he returned to Ohio and founded the Zent Automobile Manufacturing Company in Bellefontaine .

vehicles

Only one model was on offer. It had a single cylinder engine . It drove the rear axle via a chain. The setup was a runabout .

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. 1581 (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. 1784 (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. 1581 (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. 1784 (English).