CJ Moore Manufacturing Company

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CJ Moore Manufacturing Company
legal form Company
founding 1901
resolution 1903
Seat Westfield , Massachusetts , USA
management Charles J. Moore
Branch vehicles

Westfield from 1902 at the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run
Side view

CJ Moore Manufacturing Company was an American manufacturer of vehicles .

Company history

Charles J. Moore founded the company in November 1901. The company was based in Westfield , Massachusetts . In the same year the production of automobiles began . The brand name was Westfield . Motor vehicle production ended in 1903.

vehicles

Mostly steam cars were on offer . They had a steam engine with two cylinders and 6 hp . The Model A was a runabout with two seats and the Model B , a runabout with four seats.

From 1902 Westfield also offered vehicles without an engine. The customer could assemble an engine of his choice. Both chain and cardan drives have been handed down . These vehicles were bodied as runabouts, touring cars, and light delivery vans .

At the beginning of 1903 a vehicle with a gasoline engine was presented. It was a four-cylinder engine with 16 hp. The vehicle was apparently only used for experimental purposes.

One vehicle still exists. It has a two-cylinder engine with OHV valve control from the Remington Motor Vehicle Company . The engine produces 13 HP from a displacement of around 2500 cm³ . The structure is a tonneau with a rear entry. The Bonhams auction house auctioned the vehicle on November 3, 2017 for 332,157 euros .

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. 1532-1533 (English).
  • George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1734 (English).

Web links

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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. 1532-1533 (English).
  2. ↑ George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1734 (English).
  3. ↑ Auction 2017 (accessed April 27, 2019)