Bull Moose-Cutting Automobile Company

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The Bull Moose Cutting Automobile Company was a short-lived former automakers from Saint Paul ( Minnesota , USA ).

description

The company's only automobile, which was only manufactured for a few months at the end of 1914, was the Baby Moose ("Little Elk"), a two -seater roadster with seats arranged one behind the other. The vehicle is known as a cycle car, but the displacement of 1168 cm³ is above the limit for cycle cars . Technically, it largely corresponded to a design that John E. Pfeffer from Minneapolis (Minnesota) had developed for the Continental Engine Manufacturing Company in Chicago ( Illinois ) and Minneapolis. How it came about that the company in St. Paul was able to bring out its almost identical small car is not clear. It is known that the Continental Engine Manufacturing Company received fresh capital and was reorganized in Chicago as the Continental Engineering Company . Pfeffer further developed the Continental into the slightly larger Ceco and remained on the board of the new company without moving to Chicago. It appears that instead he prepared the Baby Moose for the Bull Moose-Cutting Automobile Company .

The Baby Moose had the same wheelbase of 2337 mm (92 inches) as the Continental , a (probably identical) air-cooled four-cylinder engine with about 12 hp according to the calculation method at the time and even the same price at US $ 360. Only the chain drive that was available as an option was not available on the Baby Moose ; like many Continental, it had a belt drive . While this was only available as a tandem roadster, a van body was also offered for the Baby Moose .

The Baby Moose is sometimes erroneously referred to as Bull Moose - probably because of the name of its manufacturer .

Predecessor and parallel developments of the Baby Moose

construction time model Manufacturer engine drive wheelbase body List price
1914 Continental Continental Engine Mfg. 4 cyl. friction 2337 mm Tandem 2 pl. US $ 360
1914 Continental Continental Engine Mfg. 4 cyl. Chain 2337 mm Tandem 2 pl. US $ 360
1914-1915 Ceco Continental engineering 4 cylinders / 12 hp friction 2616 mm Tandem 2 pl. US $ 375
1914-1915 Ceco Continental engineering 4 cylinders / 12 hp friction 2616 mm Roadster 2 pl. US $ 350
1914-1915 Ceco Continental engineering 4 cylinders / 12 hp friction 2616 mm Parcel Post Delivery US $ 395
1914-1915 Ceco Continental engineering 4 cylinders / 12 hp friction 2616 mm Light delivery US $ 350
1914 Baby moose Bull Moose-Cutting 4 cyl. friction 2337 mm Tandem 2 pl. US $ 360
1914 Baby moose Bull Moose-Cutting 4 cyl. friction 2337 mm Light delivery US $ 360

Like numerous other cyclecars , the Baby Moose disappeared very quickly from the market because "real" cars like the Ford Model T were becoming cheaper and cheaper; a two-seat runabout was available from US $ 500 in 1914. The five-seater touring car cost only US $ 50 more and prices even fell by US $ 10 each the following year.

literature

  • Beverly Ray Kimes, Henry Austin Clark Jr .: Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805-1942. Krause Publications, Iola 1985, ISBN 0-87341-045-9 , p. 1215. (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kimes (1985), p. 357
  2. ↑ a b c Kimes (1985), p. 88
  3. ↑ Kimes (1985), p. 554-555