Dowagiac Motor Car Company

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Dowagiac Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1909
resolution 1909
Seat Dowagiac , Michigan , USA
Branch Automobiles

Dowagiac Motor Car Company , also Dowagiac Auto-Car Company , was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

A group of residents of Dowagiac , Michigan, took over what was left of the JV Lindsley Auto Chassis Company in 1909 . Frank Lake was one of them. They continued the production of automobiles. The brand name was Dowagiac . Were planned also commercial vehicles and a larger passenger cars with the brand name Doe-wah-Jack .

In July 1909, Frank Lake and another employee died in an accident. Then production ended. A total of 15 vehicles were built.

The Tulsa Auto Manufacturing Company took over the factory equipment.

vehicles

The cars were the same as the Lindsley. They were highwheelers . The chassis had a wheelbase of 198 cm . A two-cylinder engine with 10 hp drove the rear axle via a chain. Model B was a runabout and Model C was a Stanhope .

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1909 Model B 2 10 198 Runabout
1909 Model C 2 10 198 Stanhope

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. 886-887 (English).
  • George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 2: G-O . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 909 (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. 887 (English).
  2. ↑ George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 2: G-O . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 909 (English).