Cutting Motor Car Company

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Clarke-Carter Automobile Company
Cutting Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1909
resolution 1913
Seat Jackson , Michigan , USA
management Horatio E. Clarke
Branch Automobiles

Cutting Motor Car Company , previously the Clarke-Carter Automobile Company , was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Horatio E. Clarke and Wedworth W. Carter founded the Clarke-Carter Automobile Company in Jackson , Michigan in 1909 . Clarke became president, Carter became secretary and treasurer. Charles Cutting was the designer. They started producing automobiles in the same year. The brand name was Cutting . The company was underfunded. In 1913 it was renamed the Cutting Motor Car Company . Everything was sold in October 1913.

The buyer was LC Erbes, who sold 300 vehicles to customers in Iowa and later built vehicles as LC Erbes .

vehicles

All vehicles had four cylinder engines that came from Milwaukee , Model, and the Wisconsin Motor Manufacturing Company .

In 1910 the Model A-40 was the only model. The engine developed 40 hp . The wheelbase was 295 cm. Superstructures as Tourabout and touring cars were available.

1911 saw a substantial increase in the range. The Model A-30 had an engine with 32 hp and was bodied as a roadster . The touring car Model B-40 had a 35 hp engine. The engine in the touring car model C-40 , in the fore-door touring car model D-50 and in the torpedo model E-50 generated 40 hp . What these five models had in common was a wheelbase of 295 cm. There were also two larger and more powerful models that had a chassis with a 310 cm wheelbase and an engine with 60 hp. These were the Model F-60 as a touring car and the Model G-60 as a torpedo touring car, both with seven seats.

In 1912 there were four models with the well-known wheelbase of 295 cm. Model A-30 as a torpedo roadster, Model D-35 as a fore-door touring car and Model T-35 as a torpedo touring car had a 30 HP engine, while the engine in the fore-door touring car Model D-40 10 More horsepower. The two larger models had an engine with 50 hp and a wheelbase of either 315 or 320 cm. Both were torpedo touring cars. The Model F-60 had seven seats and the Model T-55 had five seats.

In the last year of 1913 the range was reduced to two models. They had an engine with 40 hp and a chassis with a 305 cm wheelbase. Model A-40 was a two-seat runabout and Model B-40 was a five-seat touring car.

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1910 Model A-40 4th 40 295 Tourabout, touring cars
1911 Model A-30 4th 32 295 Roadster
1911 Model B-40 4th 35 295 Touring car
1911 Model C-50 4th 40 295 Touring car
1911 Model D-50 4th 40 295 Fore-door touring car
1911 Model E-50 4th 40 295 torpedo
1911 Model F-60 4th 60 310 7-seater touring car
1911 Model G-60 4th 60 310 7-seater torpedo touring car
1912 Model A-30 4th 30th 295 Torpedo Roadster
1912 Model D-35 4th 30th 295 Fore-door touring car
1912 Model D-40 4th 40 295 Fore-door touring car
1912 Model F-60 4th 50 315 and 320 7-seater torpedo touring car
1912 Model T-35 4th 30th 295 Torpedo touring car
1912 Model T-55 4th 50 315 and 320 5-seater torpedo touring car
1913 Model A-40 4th 40 305 Torpedo runabout 2-seater
1913 Model B-40 4th 40 305 5-seater 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. 409 (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. 360-361. (English)

Web links

Commons : Cutting Motor Car Company  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

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. 409 (English).
  2. ↑ George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 360-361. (English)