Bailey Automobile Company

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Bailey-Perkins Motor Company
Bailey Automobile Company
legal form Company
founding 1906
resolution 1910
Seat Springfield , Massachusetts , USA
management
  • Julian L. Perkins
  • James A. Perkins
Branch Automobiles

Bailey Automobile Company , previously Bailey-Perkins Motor Company , was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The brothers Julian L. and James A. Perkins developed a prototype in 1906 , which they called Perkins , but could not bring it to market due to lack of money. Together with the financier Bertram Bailey, they founded the Bailey-Perkins Motor Company in Springfield , Massachusetts in 1906 . Now the production of automobiles began, which were marketed as Bailey . It became the Bailey Automobile Company on February 12, 1907 when Henry G. Whitman and Willis L. Van Sicklin invested. Production ended in 1910.

There was no association with SR Bailey & Company , which used the same brand name.

vehicles

The unusual thing was the rotary engine . In the prototype it was a four - cylinder two-stroke engine , in the series it was also a four-cylinder engine, whereby the two-stroke process is no longer mentioned.

In 1907 the engine developed 22 hp . The only model had a 254 cm wheelbase and a two-seater runabout body.

In the following years, a more powerful engine with 30/35 hp was used. In 1908 there was a five-seater touring car and a speedster , both with a 284 cm wheelbase.

For 1909 five- and seven-seat touring cars, three- and four-seat roadsters and a five-seat baby tonneau are named. The wheelbase remained unchanged.

In 1910, an Olympic touring car was the only body shape. The chassis now had a wheelbase of 290 cm.

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1907 22 HP 4th 22nd 254 Runabout 2-seater
1908 30/35 HP 4th 30/35 284 5-seater touring car, Speedster
1909 30/35 HP 4th 30/35 284 Touring car 5- and 7-seater, roadster 3- and 4-seater, Baby Tonneau 5-seater
1910 30/35 HP 4th 30/35 290 Olympic touring car

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. 95 (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. 126. (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. 95 (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. 126. (English)