Burdick Motor Car Company

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Burdick Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1909
resolution 1910
Seat Eau Claire , Wisconsin , USA
management Ralph Burdick
Branch Automobiles

Burdick Motor Car Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles . Another source writes to the Burdick Motor Company .

Company history

Ralph Burdick manufactured two-stroke engines for boats in his American Motor Company . In 1909 he founded the separate automobile manufacturing company in Eau Claire , Wisconsin . The vehicles were marketed as Burdick . Production ended in 1909 or 1910. In 1910 the company was dissolved.

vehicles

The Model C had a six-cylinder engine from the Continental Motors Company with 9668 cc displacement , which made 60 hp . The chassis had a wheelbase of 361 cm . The vehicles were bodied as open seven-seater touring cars . The new price was very high at 7,000 US dollars .

The Greyhound model was supposed to have the same wheelbase and a more powerful 85 hp engine, but was not completed.

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. 194 (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. 224. (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. 194 (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. 224. (English)