Solved NIC#1095 - 1915 S.R.K. (formerly Strouse)

[nicanary]

Another rare marque. What is it?

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Experts?

[kwgibbs]

is it American?

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is it American?

Yes.

[fyreline]

You do manage to find some obscure cars. If it wasn't for Bev Kimes & Austie Clark's Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805-1942, I'd never have found it, but there it was on page 1291.  It's the 1915 S.R.K. roadster, built in Detroit, Michigan - if in fact it ever made actual production at all.  1915 is the only year listed for it, and it was gone as quickly as it appeared.

[nicanary]

You do manage to find some obscure cars. If it wasn't for Bev Kimes & Austie Clark's Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805-1942, I'd never have found it, but there it was on page 1291.  It's the 1915 S.R.K. roadster, built in Detroit, Michigan - if in fact it ever made actual production at all.  1915 is the only year listed for it, and it was gone as quickly as it appeared.

That's right - well done and perseverance pays off. It would have been called a Strouse, but he had a disagreement with his business partners. Power was a 4-cylinder Hermann and it had friction transmission.

[fyreline]

Even more fortunately (for my sanity, which is tenuous at best), for some reason I started my search of the book from the back instead of the front - or I would still be at it. Keep those puzzles coming . . .

[nicanary]

Even more fortunately (for my sanity, which is tenuous at best), for some reason I started my search of the book from the back instead of the front - or I would still be at it. Keep those puzzles coming . . .

I did that once with an obscure British 500cc F3 car. No idea why, but the first letter was W so I found it almost straight away! That's life.

There seems to be an almost infinite number of obscure American cars from the early days. Having said that, I try not to concentrate on one specific area of motoring history, so I don't want to post an endless number of such puzzles. Watch this space.