Darts (vehicle brand)

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Dart was a US vehicle brand.

Brand history

Bicycles were produced from 1890 and motors for automobiles from around 1900 . Commercial vehicles followed in 1903 . The manufacturer was the Dart Truck Company from Anderson in Indiana . It became the Dart Manufacturing Company in 1907 when the company moved to Waterloo , Iowa . It is unclear whether it was the Anderson Dart Manufacturing Company of the same name . Other company names in Waterloo were Dart Motor Truck Company from 1914, Dart Truck & Tractor Corporation from 1918 and Hawkeye-Dart Truck Company from 1924. In 1925, the company moved to Kansas City in Missouri . The company names were Dart Truck Company from 1925 to 1961, KW-Dart Truck Company until 1970 and again Dart Truck Company from 1970. The latter company was sold to Paccar in 1972 , in 1984 to Uni Rig from Tulsa in Oklahoma and in 1988 to Terex .

vehicles

Large trucks were on offer . This is what dump trucks with up to 150 tons are called. Some vehicles had a V16 - diesel engine with 1,600 PS performance. In 1939 there were tractors with diesel-electric propulsion.

In 1922, a few passenger cars were also built , but they did not get beyond the prototype stage . The chassis of a small commercial vehicle from the brand may have formed the basis. A four-cylinder engine with an L-head powered the vehicles. They were called Dartmobile .

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. 417 (English).
  • Halwart Schrader , Jan P. Norbye: The truck lexicon. All brands 1900 to today. Schrader Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-613-01837-3 , p. 40.

Web links

Commons : Darts  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c 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. 417 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Halwart Schrader, Jan P. Norbye: The truck lexicon. All brands 1900 to today. Schrader Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-613-01837-3 , p. 40.