Cortland Cart & Carriage Company

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Cortland Cart & Carriage Company
legal form Company
founding 1880s
resolution 1924
Reason for dissolution Bankrupt
Seat Sidney , New York , USA
management Louis I. Hatfield
Branch vehicles

Cortland Cart & Carriage Company was an American manufacturer of vehicles .

Company history

Hjalmar Malmberg, originally from Sweden, founded the company in the early 1880s. Malmberg became president, Frank A. Begent became vice president and Louis I. Hatfield became general manager. The seat was initially in Cortland in the US state of New York . They made carriages .

In March 1895 a fire destroyed the plant. In July 1895 the seat was moved to Sydney , also in New York State.

In the early 1910s, Louis I. Hatfield was President and Winfield T. Sherwood was Vice President. Commercial vehicles were built between 1912 and 1913 . At the end of 1915, the production of automobiles was announced and started in 1916. The brand name was Hatfield .

Production ended in 1924. The company went bankrupt . In total, over 1500 passenger cars were built .

vehicles

The Four appeared in 1916 . Like all models up to 1920, it had a four-cylinder engine from GB&S . It made 23 hp . The chassis had a wheelbase of 269 ​​cm . The only known version was the Model H as a two-seater roadster .

In 1917 Model A as a five-seater touring car , Model B as a two-seater roadster Speedster and Model I as a five-seater Suburban supplemented the range. The Suburban was open at the sides and is said to be an early version of a station wagon .

In 1918 the wheelbase was extended to 292 cm. The model names were omitted. There was a choice of touring cars with five seats, roadsters and runabouts with two seats each, and a sociable roadster with four seats.

In 1919 the two-seaters were discontinued. The roadster was simply called the roadster.

In 1920 the model A-42 appeared . The vehicles were powered by a four-cylinder Herschell-Spillman engine with 42 hp. Roadsters and Speedsters with two seats, Suburban and Roadster with four seats as well as touring cars, limousines and Brougham with five seats have been handed down.

For the period from 1921 to 1922, the engine output was specified as 35 hp. The two-seater, the Suburban and the Brougham were omitted.

In 1923 the wheelbase was lengthened to 318 cm. Touring cars and limousines remained in the range. There was also a sport with four and five seats and a coupé with four seats.

The Model 55 was introduced in 1924 . It had a Herschell-Spillman six-cylinder engine . It made 55 hp. The wheelbase was 307 cm. There was a choice of touring cars, sports touring cars and sedans, each with five seats, and a four-seat coupé.

Model overview

year model execution cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1916 Four Model H 4th 23 269 Roadster 2-seater
1917 Four Model A 4th 23 269 5-seater touring car
1917 Four Model B 4th 23 269 Roadster-Speedster 2-seater
1917 Four Model H 4th 23 269 Roadster 2-seater
1917 Four Model I. 4th 23 269 Suburban 5-seater
1918 Four 4th 23 292 Touring car 5-seater, Roadster 2-seater, Runabout 2-seater, Sociable Roadster 4-seater
1919 Four 4th 23 292 5-seater touring car, 4-seater roadster
1920 Model A-42 4th 42 292 Roadster 2-seat and 4-seat, Speedster 2-seat, Suburban 4-seat, touring car 5-seat, sedan 5-seat, Brougham 5-seat
1921-1922 Model A-42 4th 35 292 Roadster 4-seater, touring car 5-seater, sedan 5-seater
1923 Model A-42 4th 35 318 5-seater touring car, 4-seater and 5-seater sport, 5-seater sedan, 4-seater coupé
1924 Model 55 6th 55 307 5-seater touring car, 5-seater sports touring car, 4-seater coupé, 5-seater sedan

Production numbers

year Production number
1916 69
1917 173
1918 187
1919 121
1920 223
1921 237
1922 183
1923 161
1924 200
total 1554

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. 682-683 (English).
  • George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 2: G-O . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 674-675 (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. 682-683 (English).
  2. ↑ a b George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 2: G-O . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 674-675 (English).
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Mark Theobald: Coachbuilt (English, accessed April 14, 2018)