Curtis Motor Car Company

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Curtis Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1920
resolution 1921
Reason for dissolution insolvency
Seat Little Rock , Arkansas , USA
Branch Automobiles

Curtis Motor Car Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded in Little Rock , Arkansas , in 1920 . The idea came from the former mayor Charles E. Taylor. General Motors employed FH Berger as chief engineer . From 1920 to 1921 automobiles with the brand name Curtis were produced . In April 1921 the bankruptcy followed . According to one source, a total of 46 or 53 vehicles were built. Another source names either 30 or 45 to 60 vehicles.

vehicles

Many parts were bought in. The four-cylinder engine came from Herschell-Spillman and the six-cylinder engine from the Continental Motors Company . One illustration shows a touring car .

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. 407 (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 , pp. 359-360. (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. 407 (English).
  2. ^ A b George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 359-36. (English)