Cord (car brand)

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Cord L-29 from 1929
Cord 810 from 1936 in the Tallahassee Automobile Museum
Cord 810 Westchester from 1937 in the Beaulieu Car Museum, England
Cord 812 in the Sinsheim Auto and Technology Museum

Cord was a pre-war American car brand that existed between 1929 and 1937. The seat was in Auburn , Indiana .

history

The Cord car brand came into being in 1929 when Errett Lobban Cord founded the Cord Corporation as a holding company under which the automobile manufacturers he owned, Auburn Automobile Company and Duesenberg , the engine manufacturer Lycoming and the new Cord brand were combined. The Cord brand vehicles were produced by Auburn. The first model, originally simply called Cord , later commonly referred to as the L-29, was the first mass-produced front-wheel drive car . Cords were equipped with eight-cylinder engines from the sister company Lycoming as well as with three-speed gears initially operated by a linkage and later electro-pneumatically. As was customary at the time, the bodies were supplied by independent manufacturers; the attempt to establish a factory body offer with a model series attributed to the fictional body construction company LaGrande failed in 1930.

In 1935, a new model designed by designer Gordon Buehrig was presented. The Cord 810 was a streamlined front-wheel drive car . It was the first production vehicle with pop-up headlights . Cord used the retractable landing lights from the Stinson Aircraft Company, which is also part of the Cord Holding . The engine was a short V-8 compared to an in-line engine . In 1937 the supercharged version 812 was presented, which reached a top speed of around 160 km / h. As a result of problems with the gearbox , which was designed even more complex than that of the L-29, and finally EL Cord's withdrawal from the automotive business, this vehicle was sold relatively seldom with 2,320 copies.

Body panels were used by Graham-Paige for their Hollywood saloon (1940).

Brand name revival

In the 1960s, presented Cord Automobile Company under the direction of Glenn Pray with original material on modern chassis of Chevrolet replicas ago.

literature

  • Lee Beck, Josh B. Malks: Auburn and Cord . MBI Publ. Company, 1996.
  • Don Butler: Auburn Cord Duesenberg . MBI Publ. Company, 1992.

Web links

Commons : Cord Vehicles  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files