Drexel Motor Corporation

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Drexel Motor Car Corporation
Drexel Motor Corporation
legal form Corporation
founding 1916
resolution 1917
Seat Chicago , Illinois , USA
Branch Automobiles

Drexel Motor Corporation , emerged from Drexel Motor Car Corporation , was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Drexel Motor Car Corporation share on July 28, 1916

Albert J. Farmer founded Drexel Motor Car Corporation in 1916 as the successor to Farmack Motor Car Company . The seat was in Chicago in Detroit . He continued the production of automobiles that were marketed as Drexel . Farmer was a technician, but not a good businessman. Farmer was supposed to resign in the spring of 1917, although he held patents on his engines. In addition, there was the failure of two banks that had invested heavily in the company. Bankruptcy followed in the summer of 1917

Harry B. Staver, who previously the Staver Motor Company initiated, became the liquidator determined. The reorganization resulted in Drexel Motor Corporation . Albert Drexel left the company. Now only prototypes were made . Everything was auctioned in October.

vehicles

Two models from 1916 had a four-cylinder engine with DOHC valve control and four -valve technology, which was unusual at the time. It made 63 hp . The chassis had a 300 cm wheelbase . The Model 4-60 was as a club - Roadster karosseriert with four seats and possibly the fastest car from Chicago production. The Model 7-60 was a seven-seater touring car .

The Model 5-40 from 1916 also had a four-cylinder engine, but with simple OHC valve control , and 41 hp. The wheelbase was 284 cm. The only body shape was a touring car.

In 1917 the model R-30/35 was in the range. The four-cylinder engine developed 35 hp. Five-seat touring cars and two-seat roadsters were available on a chassis with a 284 cm wheelbase.

The prototypes of the new company had a V8 engine that Ferro was called.

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1916 Model 4-60 4th 63 300 Club
1916 Model 5-40 4th 41 284 Touring car
1916 Model 7-60 4th 63 300 Touring car
1917 Model R-30/35 4th 35 284 5-seater touring car, 2-seater roadster

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. 493 (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. 457 (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. 493 (English).
  2. ↑ George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 457 (English).