Detroit Motors Company

Briggs-Detroit Company ; Detroit Motor Car Company ; Detroit Motors Company
legal form	Company
founding	1911
resolution	1917
Reason for dissolution	insolvency
Seat	Detroit , Michigan , USA
management	JS Kuhn
Branch	Automobiles

Detroiter Motors Company , previously the Briggs-Detroiter Company and Detroiter Motor Car Company , was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Claude S. Briggs, who previously worked for the Brush Runabout Company , and John A. Boyle founded the Briggs-Detroit Company on December 5, 1911 . The seat was in Detroit , Michigan . Zach C. Barber, who came from Everitt-Metzger-Flanders Company , became sales manager and WS Lee became chief engineer. They started producing automobiles in 1912. The brand name was Detroiter , initially unofficially Briggs-Detroiter . The first public presentation was in January 1912 at the Detroit Automobile Show . Bankruptcy followed in the summer of 1915 .

AO Dunk from Puritan Motor Company took over the company that summer while Briggs moved to CR Wilson Body Company . The new company name was Detroit Motor Car Company . At the beginning of 1917, Dunk promoted himself to chairman of the management and selected the banker JS Kuhn as the new president.

In March 1917 the company was renamed the Detroit Motors Company . In October 1917 it came back to bankruptcy. In December 1917, Sam Winternitz bought everything. That was the end.

Another source initially names the Briggs-Detroiter Motorcar Company and, from 1916, the United Detroiter Corporation as the only company names.

vehicles

In 1912 there was only Model No. 1 . It had a four-cylinder engine from the Continental Motors Company with an output of 25 hp . The wheelbase was 264 cm. The open touring car offered space for five people.

1913 from the Model A . A two-seater roadster was added.

In 1914 the Series A was available in different versions. The engine output was now given as 20 hp. The Model A-1 , Model A-2 and Model A-6 were five-seat touring cars, Model A-3 , Model A-4 and Model A-5 were two-seat roadsters, and the Kangaroo was a two-seat speedster .

In 1915 the offer was limited to the Model C-5 . The wheelbase was lengthened to 284 cm. The only body shape was a touring car with five seats.

1916, from the Model F . The engine now made 23 hp. A five-seater sedan was added to the touring car . The F-8 model also added to the range. It had a V8 engine from Perkins with 3502 cc engine capacity , which was given as 31 hp. The wheelbase and superstructures corresponded to the four-cylinder model.

In 1917 the Model 6-45 was the only vehicle on offer. The vehicles were powered by a six-cylinder engine from Continental with an output of 45 hp. The chassis had a wheelbase of 302 cm. The bodies listed are a five-seat touring car, three-seat roadster, four-seat Luxemor roadster, a convertible coupé called a cabriolet and a five-seat touring limousine.

Model overview

year	model	execution	cylinder	Power ( hp )	Wheelbase (cm)	construction
1912	Model No. 1		4th	25th	264	5-seater touring car
1913	Model A		4th	25th	264	5-seater touring car, 2-seater roadster
1914	Series A	Model A-1	4th	20th	264	5-seater touring car
1914	Series A	Model A-2	4th	20th	264	5-seater touring car
1914	Series A	Model A-3	4th	20th	264	Roadster 2-seater
1914	Series A	Model A-4	4th	20th	264	Roadster 2-seater
1914	Series A	Model A-5	4th	20th	264	Roadster 2-seater
1914	Series A	Model A-6	4th	20th	264	5-seater touring car
1914	Series A	Kangaroo	4th	20th	264	Speedster 2-seater
1915	Model C-5		4th	20th	284	5-seater touring car
1916	Model F		4th	23	284	5-seater touring car, 5-seater sedan
1916	Model F-8		8th	31	284	5-seater touring car, 5-seater sedan
1917	Model 6-45		6th	45	302	5-seater touring car, 3-seater roadster, 4-seater Luxemor Roadster, convertible coupé, 5-seater touring sedan

Quantities

More than 1,100 vehicles were produced in 1912 and 2,477 in the following year.

1400 vehicles were built in 1914, including 150 Kangaroo roadsters. In the first half of 1915 450 four-cylinder models and 280 eight-cylinder models were sold. 778 vehicles were built from the six-cylinder model.

A total of 778 vehicles have been handed down for the model years 1916 and 1917.

In total there were about 6500 vehicles.

About a dozen vehicles still exist.

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. 449-450 (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. 430-431 (English).

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d 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. 449-450 (English).
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Alan P. Smithee: Automobile Quarterly Volume 37, Volume 4.
↑ ^a ^b ^c George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 430-431 (English).

[Kimes-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. 449-450 (English).

[AQ-2] Alan P. Smithee: Automobile Quarterly Volume 37, Volume 4.

[Beaulieu-3] George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 430-431 (English).