There Motor Car Company

A there shows its robustness in an advertising image (1918)

There from 1922

There Touring (Bj. 1923) at the Vienna Classic Days 2019

Dort Motor Car Company shares on April 25, 1922

The Dort Motor Car Company was an automobile manufacturer from Flint , Michigan . The construction time was from 1915 to 1924.

history

The company was founded as the Flint Road Cart Company in 1884 by William C. Durant and Josiah Dallas Dort , who sold wagons from local companies for US $ 8 each. In 1900 the company, which at that time produced 50,000 carriages per year, was renamed the Durant Dort Carriage Company .

In 1912 there was director and vice president of Chevrolet , but in 1913 he left this post and in 1915 he also parted ways with Durant and the company was renamed the Durant Motor Car Company . Etienne Planche , who together with Louis Chevrolet had built his first automobile, became chief engineer . 1920 was the company's best year, with over 30,000 vehicles built. In Canada the cars were manufactured under license by William Gray and offered as Gray there .

The Dort Motor Car Company built a total of over 107,000 cars by 1924 and then had to give up because the rising costs for development and marketing in the 1920s made economic operation impossible. After the death of Josiah Dallas there in 1925, the company's fate was sealed.

Models

The cars were equipped with Lycoming engines, later a six-cylinder engine from Falls Motor Corporation was added.

model	Construction period	cylinder	power	wheelbase
Four	1915-1919	4 row	16.9 bhp (12.4 kW)	2667 mm
Four	1920	4 row	30 bhp (22 kW)	2680 mm
Four	1921-1922	4 row	30 bhp (22 kW)	2743 mm
Four	1923	4 row	32 bhp (23.5 kW)	2743 mm
Six	1923-1924	6 row	45 bhp (33 kW)	2921 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

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