Clark-Hatfield Automobile Company
The Clark-Hatfield Automobile Company in Oshkosh, Wisconsin was a short-lived American automobile manufacturer.
history
The company emerged from the very successful carriage construction company Clark & Company, founded by JL Clark in the 1890s . His son and successor, Herbert M. Clark, decided around 1908 to start producing automobiles. Did Charles B. Hatfield, Jr. only stood by as a technical advisor or invested himself is not known. Together with his father he had designed a highwheeler of a similar concept and was used as a buggyabout from 1906–1907 . Unique in its Hatfield Motor Vehicle Company in Miamisburg ( Ohio produced).
The Clark-Hatfield Model 23 was the only automobile the company ever made. The starting product was actually a horse-drawn buggy , which received a purchased two-cylinder engine of unknown origin with a displacement of 113.5 ci (1860 cm³) and an output of 14 hp as well as a friction gear . The only unconventional element of the otherwise typical high wheeler was that this friction gear was mounted in front of the engine instead of behind, which, however, did not improve the functionality of the vehicle.
The vehicle weighed 1200 lbs (544 kg), the wheelbase was 78 inches (2377 mm), and the wooden-spoke wheels were 38 x 1.5 inches.
The car, which was publicly announced in July 1908, was in the upper end of the market segment with a sales price of US $ 650 and was exactly as expensive as the seriously designed and extremely successful Oldsmobile Curved Dash, which had been discontinued the year before . A Success highwheeler was initially available from US $ 250; most competing products cost between US $ 300 and 400.
The number of items produced for Model 23 is not known; It is unlikely that many were there until 1909 when production ended and the company began manufacturing superstructures for commercial vehicles.
Overview of car brands from the US, the Clark include
brand | Manufacturer | Marketing start | End of marketing | Location, state |
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Clark | Clark Manufacturing Company | 1897 | 1901 | Moline, Illinois |
Clark | Edward S. Clark Steam Automobiles | 1900 | 1909 | Boston, Massachusetts |
Clark | AF Clark & Company | 1903 | 1905 | Philadelphia, Philadelphia |
Clark | Clark Motor Car Company | 1910 | 1912 | Shelbyville, Indiana |
Clark | Furgason Motor Company | 1910 | 1911 | Lansing, Michigan |
Clark Electric | Toledo Electric Vehicle Company | 1909 | 1910 | Toledo, Ohio |
Clark Electric | Brunn Carriage Manufacturing Company | 1910 | 1910 | Buffalo, New York |
Clark-Hatfield | Clark-Hatfield Automobile Company | 1908 | 1909 | Oshkosh, Wisconsin |
Clark-Norwalk | Norwalk Motor Car Company | 1910 | 1910 | Norwalk, Ohio |
Clarkmobile | Clarkmobile Company | 1903 | 1904 | Lansing, Michigan |
literature
- Beverly Rae Kimes, Henry Austin Clark Jr .: Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805-1942. Krause Publications, Iola 1996, ISBN 978-0-87341-428-9 . (English) (English)
- Beverly Rae Kimes: Pioneers, Engineers, and Scoundrels: The Dawn of the Automobile in America. Published by SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) Permissions, Warrendale PA 2005, ISBN 0-7680-1431-X (hardcover). (English)
- Robert D. Dluhy: American Automobiles of the Brass Era: Essential Specifications of 4,000+ Gasoline Powered Passenger Cars, 1906-1915, with a Statistical and Historical Overview. Mcfarland & Co Inc (2013); ISBN 0-78647-136-0 ; ISBN 978-078647-136-2 ; soft cover (English)