De Luxe Motor Car Company

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De Luxe Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1906
resolution 1909
Seat Detroit , Michigan , USA
management Nathan F. Kaufman
Branch Automobiles

De Luxe Motor Car Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded in 1906 in Toledo , Ohio . Nathan F. Kaufman was President and Daniel W. Kaufman was General Manager. They started with the production of automobiles. The brand name was Car De Luxe . In October 1906 there was a merger with the CH Blomstrom Motor Company from Detroit . In 1908 the company's headquarters were relocated to Detroit, Michigan . Production ended in 1909.

The Everitt-Metzger-Flanders Company later used the plant. There is no known connection to Spacke Machine & Tool Company in Indianapolis , which produced vehicle engines of the De Luxe brand around the same time.

vehicles

High-priced vehicles were on offer. What they had in common was the four-cylinder engine . The chassis had a 307 cm wheelbase .

1907 there was only the Model A . The engine developed 50 hp . The only structure was a touring car with seven seats.

Model B followed in 1908 . The engine remained unchanged. There was a choice of seven-seat touring cars, four-seat runabouts and seven-seat limousines - landaulets .

In 1909 the Model B received an engine that was specified with 50/60 hp. The seven-seater touring car continued to exist. A close-coupled touring car with four to five seats and a seven-seat sedan are also mentioned.

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1907 Model A 4th 50 307 7-seater touring car
1908 Model B 4th 50 307 7-seater touring car, 4-seater runabout, 7-seater limousine landaulet
1909 Model B 4th 50/60 307 7-seater touring car, 4 to 5-seater close-coupled touring car, 7-seater sedan

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. 253-254 (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. 246. (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. 253-254 (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. 246. (English)