Crowther-Duryea Motor Company

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Crowther Motor Company
Crowther-Duryea Motor Company
legal form Company
founding 1915
resolution 1918
Seat Rochester , New York , USA
management
  • Henry Crowther
  • Charles E. Duryea
Branch Automobiles

Crowther-Duryea Motor Company , previously Crowther Motor Company , was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Henry Crowther founded the Crowther Motor Company in Rochester , New York , in October 1915 . The production of automobiles took place at the Cresson-Morris Company in Philadelphia . The brand name was Crowther .

At the end of 1916, Henry Crowther and Charley E. Duryea merged and renamed the previous company Crowther-Duryea Motor Company . The brand name was now Crowther-Duryea . Production ended in 1917. A total of around 100 vehicles of the double brand were built.

A tire company bought the plant in 1918.

vehicles

First, the model 5-30 from the Crowther brand appeared . It had a four-cylinder engine with 23 hp . The wheelbase was 279 cm. There was a choice of bodies as open touring cars with four and five seats.

This was followed by the Model 5-35 from the Crowther-Duryea brand . The engine remained unchanged. The chassis was slightly lengthened and now had a 284 cm wheelbase. A two-seat runabout and a five-seat touring car have survived.

Model overview

year brand model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1916 Crowther Model 5-30 4th 23 279 4-seater and 5-seater touring cars
1917 Crowther Duyrea Model 5-35 4th 23 284 Runabout 2-seater, touring car 4-seater

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. 399 (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. 354. (English)

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. 399 (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. 354. (English)