- Founded
- 1911 – 1912
- Country
- United States
Former Peerless employee W. D. Bell and former Everitt-Metzger-Flanders manager H. R. Fordyce organized Bell Motor Car Company in Detroit late in 1911. To distinguish the product from its corporate name—and from unrelated Bell automobiles—the car was publicly branded Belmobile. The Model A debuted at the Detroit Automobile Show in January 1912 as a deliberately low, clean-lined roadster with a long hood, two-cylinder 20 hp engine, two-speed transmission and shaft drive. Its grey chassis and hood, blue body and exposed oval 15-US-gallon fuel tank behind the two seats were the only consistently documented factory specification. Production ended during 1912, leaving one model and no defensible output total. This Detroit Belmobile concern had no connection with Bell Motor Cars of York, Pennsylvania, founded in 1915, nor with British and French Bell marques.
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