Production chronology1904–1905
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Covert / Model record
Covert24 HP Touring Car (later Model B)
Production1904–1905
Recorded originUnited States
ClassBrass-era passenger or light commercial automobile; experimental steam car
Power24 hp
Covert's only full-size and only four-cylinder passenger family, offered solely as a five-seat tourer. Period reporting specifies wheel steering, two brakes, a 94-inch wheelbase and 1,800 lb weight. Model B and 20/24 HP are the later standard-reference identities; verified 1905 copy calls it simply the Covert Touring Car and rates it at 24 hp. Four-seat claims in derivative summaries conflict with the period five-passenger listing. It disappeared after 1905 when undercapitalized Covert contracted to the small single-cylinder Chainless.
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Record depth — Documented
How this is measured → This record contains useful sourced evidence, but it does not yet meet the reference-ready standard. Still needed: attributed imagery. Fields we cannot source stay empty rather than guessed.
Research notes
No four-cylinder production total, annual output or survivor census is published.