Bell Motor Car Company

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Bell Motor Cars Company
Founded 1915
Defunct 1922
Headquarters York, Pennsylvania (USA)
Products Cars

Bell Motor Cars Company was an American automobile company, based in York, Pennsylvania.[1] They were also built under license in Barrie, Ontario. Unrelated cars named Bell were built in England (1905-1914) and France (1923-1925).[2]

Bell, an assembler rather than a manufacturer, offered light cars with a Herschell-Spillman engine, Westinghouse starter and generator, Stromberg carburetor, Warner steering, Muncie transmission, and Atwater-Kent (domestic) or Simms magneto (export) igniton system.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Clymer, Floyd. Treasury of Early American Automobiles, 1877-1925 (New York: Bonanza Books, 1950), p.193.
  2. ^ Wise, David Burgess. Encyclopedia of Automobiles (London: Quarto Publishing, 1979, p.96-97.

[edit] Sources

  • Clymer, Floyd. Treasury of Early American Automobiles, 1877-1925. New York: Bonanza Books, 1950.

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