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The Standard Six was an American
File:1909 Standard Six color advertisement - The Automobile.jpg, 1909 Standard Six color advertisement in The Automobile
File:1910 Standard Six advertisement - Cycle and Automobile Trade Journal.jpg, 1910 Standard Six advertisement in Cycle and Automobile Trade Journal
The Standard Six was an American automobile
A car or automobile is a motor vehicle with wheels. Most definitions of ''cars'' say that they run primarily on roads, seat one to eight people, have four wheels, and mainly transport people instead of goods.
The year 1886 is regarde ...
manufactured in St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis () is the second-largest city in Missouri, United States. It sits near the confluence of the Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers. In 2020, the city proper had a population of 301,578, while the bi-state metropolitan area, which e ...
by the St. Louis Car Company
The St. Louis Car Company was a major United States manufacturer of railroad passenger cars, streetcars, interurbans, trolleybuses and locomotives that existed from 1887 to 1974, based in St. Louis, Missouri.
History
The St. Louis Car Company ...
from 1909 until 1910. The company initially built the French Mors cars under license as the American Mors from 1906 to 1909. In 1910, Standard Six manufacturing was moved to Wabash, Indiana
Wabash is a city in Noble Township, Wabash County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 10,666 at the 2010 census. The city is the county seat of Wabash County.
Wabash is notable as claiming to be the first electrically lighted ci ...
where production ended in 1911.
History
The St. Louis Car Company, better known for their railway cars, built the American Mors car from 1906 to 1909. In August of 1909 the St. Louis Car Company announced its would manufacture its ownsix-cylinder
The straight-six engine (also referred to as an inline-six engine; abbreviated I6 or L6) is a piston engine with six cylinders arranged in a straight line along the crankshaft. A straight-six engine has perfect primary and secondary engine balan ...
automobile of American design. George J. Kobusch who oversaw American Mors manufacturing remained in charge of the factory producing the new Standard Six.
The Standard Six was a 50- hp car on a 124-inch wheelbase
In both road and rail vehicles, the wheelbase is the horizontal distance between the centers of the front and rear wheels. For road vehicles with more than two axles (e.g. some trucks), the wheelbase is the distance between the steering (front ...
chassis with a three-speed transmission and shaft-drive. Pricing was $3,000 () for a touring car
Touring car and tourer are both terms for open cars (i.e. cars without a fixed roof).
"Touring car" is a style of open car built in the United States which seats four or more people. The style was popular from the early 1900s to the 1930s.
Th ...
, miniature tonneau
A tonneau ( or ) is an area of a car or truck open at the top. It can be for passengers or cargo.
A tonneau cover in current automotive terminology is a hard or soft cover that spans the back of a pickup truck to protect the load or to improve ...
or roadster, with a limousine
A limousine ( or ), or limo () for short, is a large, chauffeur-driven luxury vehicle with a partition between the driver compartment and the passenger compartment.
A very long wheelbase luxury sedan (with more than four doors) driven by a pr ...
selling for $4,000.
In February of 1910 manufacture of the Standard Six was move to a subsidiary plant in Wabash, Indiana. Financial difficulties were encountered in Indiana, and production was discontinued later in 1910. In February 1911 John I. Beggs
John Irvin Beggs (September 17, 1847 – October 17, 1925) was an American businessman. He was associated closely with the electric utility boom under Thomas Edison. He was also associated with Milwaukee, St. Louis, Missouri and other regiona ...
replaced George Kobush and production was reinstated, but for a short time only.
St. Louis Car Company left the automotive industry for a decade until they tried again with the Skelton automobile.
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