Bacon Motors Corporation

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Bacon Motors Corporation
legal form Corporation
founding 1919
resolution 1920
Seat New Castle , Pennsylvania , USA
management Frederick C. Van Derhoff
Branch Automobiles

Bacon Motors Corporation was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Frank W. Bacon had experience in automobile production from 1901 . In 1901 he produced seven vehicles under his own name . In 1919 he founded the new company in New Castle , Pennsylvania . President was Frederick C. Van Derhoff. The production of automobiles began. The brand name was Bacon . At the end of 1919, Bacon died in a traffic accident. Van Derhoff wanted to increase the number of vehicles to 25 vehicles per day by October 1920, but this did not succeed. Production ended in 1920.

vehicles

The only surviving model had a built-in engine from Herschell-Spillman . It made 35 hp . The chassis had a wheelbase of 272 cm . The only known body shape was a roadster . The original price was 750 US dollars . For comparison: the high-volume Ford Model T with a 20 hp engine and 254 cm wheelbase cost $ 500 as a roadster in 1919 and $ 395 in 1920.

literature

  • Beverly Rae Kimes, Henry Austin Clark Jr .: Standard catalog of American Cars. 1805-1942. Digital edition . 3. Edition. Krause Publications, Iola 2013, ISBN 978-1-4402-3778-2 , pp. 94 (English).
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 1: A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 125. (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Beverly Rae Kimes, Henry Austin Clark Jr .: Standard catalog of American Cars. 1805-1942. Digital edition . 3. Edition. Krause Publications, Iola 2013, ISBN 978-1-4402-3778-2 , pp. 94 (English).
  2. ↑ George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 125. (English)