Decatur Motor Car Company

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Decatur Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1909
resolution 1912
Reason for dissolution reorganization
Seat Decatur , Indiana , USA
Branch Motor vehicles

Decatur Motor Car Company was an American manufacturer of motor vehicles .

prehistory

Lembert W. Coppock founded the Coppock Motor Car Company in Marion , Indiana , in December 1906 to manufacture commercial vehicles . Financial difficulties led in July 1907 that the Decatur Commercial Club participated and moved the headquarters to Decatur , Indiana.

Company history

The company was founded on October 8, 1909 as the successor company. Lembert Coppock left around that time. The production of commercial vehicles continued. Between April 1910 and 1911 an additional 200 passenger cars were built . The brand name was Decatur . The very good sales of commercial vehicles led to a reorganization in 1912 and the Grand Rapids Motor Truck Company , based in Grand Rapids , Michigan .

A connection to the Parcel Post Equipment Company , which used the same brand name, is possible.

Car

With the utility car, there was only one model on offer . The open body offered space for four people. The rear seats could easily be removed for transporting goods. There are different details about the engine. One source thinks it was an air-cooled two-cylinder engine . Another source gives a four-cylinder engine with 12/14 hp .

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. 422 (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. 395 (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. 422 (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 , p. 395 (English).