Dixie Motor Car Company

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Advertisement for the 1916 Dixie Flyer with a Lycoming engine and spring-loaded radiator.

The Dixie Motor Car Company was an American automobile manufacturer that was based in Louisville, Kentucky from 1916 to 1923 . The company was a subsidiary of the Kentucky Wagon Manufacturing Company , a manufacturer of wagons, which had existed since 1878 .

history

In 1914, the Kentucky Wagon Manufacturing Company received an order to create body shells for the Hercules Motor Car Company in New Albany, Indiana . The following year this company stopped manufacturing and Kentucky Wagon took it over to continue building the Hercules. That never happened, but in 1916 the new Dixie Flyer appeared , a four-cylinder car from the new subsidiary that showed a number of details of the earlier Hercules car.

The cars had a windshield that sat directly on the rounded bonnet base, so it was cut concave at the bottom, which was unusual at the time. The spring-mounted cooler, which was supposed to be protected from the vibrations of driving, was also unusual. The engines came from Lycoming , later from Herschell-Spillman . From 1920 to 1923 the model H was produced with different bodies.

In 1923, Kentucky Wagon decided to pull out of the ailing auto business and sold the Dixie Motor Car Company to Associated Motor Industries , which also took over the Jackson Automobile Company and the National Motor Vehicle Company . The Model H was continued to be built as the National Model 4-H for one year , then this brand also disappeared from the market. A total of around 7500 vehicles were built.

Models

model Construction period cylinder power wheelbase
Flyer 1916-1918 4 row 17 HP (NACC) 2845 mm
HS-50 1919 4 row 17 HP (NACC) 2845 mm
H 1920-1923 4 row 35–40 bhp (26–29 kW) 2845 mm

literature

  • Beverly Ray Kimes, Henry Austin Clark Jr .: Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805-1942. Krause Publications, Iola 1985, ISBN 0-87341-045-9 . (English)

Web links

Commons : Dixie Motor Car Company  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 441. (English)
  2. ↑ 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. 456-457 (English).

annotation

  1. ↑ Predecessor formula for SAE-PS . NACC ( National Automobile Chamber of Commerce ) was an association of the automobile industry founded in 1913 and the successor to the ALAM ( Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers ), which introduced the first standards in US automobile manufacture in 1903. The inaccurate method for measuring performance was also used by the RAC in Great Britain and was mainly used for allocation to a tax class. The effective power should have been around 30 bhp.