Cloughley Motor Vehicle Company

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Cloughley Automobile Manufacturing Company
Cloughley Motor Vehicle Company
legal form Company
founding 1901
resolution 1903
Seat Parsons , Kansas , USA
management Robert H. Cloughley
Branch Automobiles

Cloughley Motor Vehicle Company , previously Cloughley Automobile Manufacturing Company , was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Robert H. Cloughley worked on an automobile from 1891. In 1896 the first steam car was ready. In April 1901 he founded the Cloughley Automobile Manufacturing Company in his hometown of Cherryvale , Kansas . Small-scale production began here. The brand name was Cloughley . The owner of the Tannehill Manufacturing Company bought the first vehicle. In early 1903, the company moved to Parsons , Kansas and renamed the Cloughley Motor Vehicle Company . Production ended in the same year 1903.

vehicles

The 1896 steam car was the first of its kind to be built west of the Mississippi River , according to a source . Cloughley used it as a taxi . The steam boiler was mounted under the rear seats. The build was a Surrey . It is unclear whether more taxis were made by 1901.

From 1902 to 1903 there was the Steam model . It was also bodied as a Surrey. The steam engine had two cylinders and developed 8 hp .

In 1903 two models with gasoline engines added to the range. They had two-cylinder engines . The power was given as 9 hp for the weaker model and 12 hp for the more powerful model. The superstructures did not differ from the steam wagons.

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) construction
1896-1901 Steam Surrey taxicab
1902 Steam 2 8th Surrey
1903 Steam 2 8th Surrey
1903 Gasoline 2 9 Surrey
1903 Gasoline 2 12 Surrey

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. 345 (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. 317. (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 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. 345 (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. 317. (English)