Daniels Motor Company

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Daniels Motor Car Company
Daniels Motor Company
legal form Company
founding 1916
resolution 1924
Reason for dissolution takeover
Seat Reading , Pennsylvania , USA
management George E. Daniels
Branch Automobiles

Daniel's Model A from 1917

Daniels Motor Company , previously Daniels Motor Car Company , was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

George E. Daniels, previously President of Oakland and Vice President of General Motors , founded Daniels Motor Car Company in Reading , Pennsylvania in 1916 . He was assisted by Neff E. Parish, whose Parish Pressed Steel Company produced frames for several automobile manufacturers. Automobile production began at the end of 1916. The brand name was Daniels . To expand, Daniels converted the company into the Daniels Motor Company . Parish withdrew financial support after an argument with Daniels. The company was then sold to Levene Motors in January 1924 . Now only vehicles were made from existing parts. Production ended in 1924. A total of around 1960 vehicles were built.

vehicles

The Model A was available from 1916 to 1918 . It had a V8 engine with SV valve control from Herschell-Spillman with 5424 cm³ displacement , which was specified with 34 hp . The wheelbase was 323 cm. Narrated are touring cars , Landaulet , sedan and roadster .

The Model C followed in 1919 with a self-made eight-cylinder engine . The engine was specified with 45 hp, but had some defects. The wheelbase remained unchanged. Only touring cars and roadsters are known.

Model D appeared in 1920 . One feature was the revised engine with 88.9 mm bore , 133.35 mm stroke , 6622 cm³ displacement and 90 hp. The chassis had been lengthened and now had a 336 cm wheelbase. This year, touring cars with four, six and seven seats, a Submarine Roadster with three seats, sedans with five and seven seats, Brougham with five seats and a Suburban with seven seats were available.

In 1921 only the superstructure changed. The seven-seat touring car, Brougham and Suburban were eliminated. The sedan was now only available with four seats. There was also a three-seater coupé , a two-seater Submarine Speedster and a Collabsible Winter Roadster .

In 1922 there were again other superstructures. These were a two-seat speedster , three- and four-seat roadster, seven-seat touring car, four-seat coupe, four-seat convertible , four-seat sedan, seven-seat Suburban and five-seat Brougham.

From 1923 two different wheelbases of 335 cm and 351 cm were available. The only two-seater was a roadster. There was also a sport with four seats, coupés with four and five seats, sedans with four, six and seven seats, a city sedan with seven seats, broughams with six and seven seats and a touring car with seven seats.

In the last year of production, 1924, the number of bodies was reduced again somewhat. Roadster, Sport, Coupé were omitted. What was left was a four-seat touring limousine, four- and seven-seat touring cars as well as seven-seat limousines, suburban limousines, Town Broughams and Landau Broughams.

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1916-1918 Model A 8th 34 323 Touring car, landaulet, limousine, roadster
1919 Model C 8th 45 323 Touring cars, roadsters
1920 Model D 8th 90 336 Touring car 4-seat and 6-seat and 7-seat, Submarine Roadster 3-seat, Limousine 5-seat and 7-seat, Brougham 5-seat, Suburban 7-seat
1921 Model D 8th 90 336 Submarine Roadster 3-seater, Coupé 3-seater, Touring car 4-seater and 6-seater, Submarine Speedster 2-seater, Collabsible Winter Roadster, Sedan 4-seater
1922 Model D 8th 90 336 Speedster 2-seat, Roadster 3-seat and 4-seat, Touring car 7-seat, Coupé 4-seat, Cabriolet 4-seat, Sedan 4-seat, Suburban 7-seat, Brougham 5-seat
1923 Model D 8th 90 335 and 351 7-seater touring car, 4-seater sport, 2-seater roadster, 4-seater and 5-seater coupé, 4-seater and 6-seater sedan, 7-seater city sedan, 6-seater and 7-seater Brougham
1924 Model D 8th 90 335 and 351 4-seater touring sedan, 4-seater and 7-seater touring car, 7-seater sedan, 7-seater Town Brougham, 7-seater Suburban sedan, 7-seater Landau Brougham

Production numbers

year Production number
1916 300
1917 200
1918 300
1919 300
1920 267
1921 313
1922 164
1923 93
1924 23
total 1960

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. 413-415 (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. 382-383. (English)

Web links

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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. 413-415 (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. 382-383. (English)