Durocar Manufacturing Company

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Durocar Manufacturing Company
legal form Company
founding 1906
resolution 1911
Reason for dissolution reorganization
Seat Los Angeles , California , USA
management William M. Varney
Branch Automobiles

Durocar Manufacturing Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Watt Moreland had been sent to the West Coast to repair a vehicle by the Winton Motor Carriage Company around 1900 , where he stayed and later ran the Magnolia Automobile Company and Auto Vehicle Company . William M. Varney sold vehicles of the latter brand in Long Beach . In 1906 they founded the company together. The seat was in Los Angeles , California . Varney was President, Moreland Secretary, Superintendent, and Chief Engineer. Norris L. Claberg, Fred L. Dolittle, L. Eugene Parker and George H. Woodruff are named as directors. They started producing automobiles in 1906. The brand name was Durocar . In January 1907, vehicles were presented at the Los Angeles Automobile Show . Only seven vehicles were built by September 1907, but then the production processes were optimized and a daily output of five vehicles was achieved. In November 1908, Moreland was denied the desire to design a four-cylinder model. He then left the company to start the Moreland Motor Truck Company .

Production ended in 1911. Varney carried out a reorganization in early 1912 that resulted in the Amalgamated Motors Company . A move to Santa Ana was considered, but rejected. Instead, the company moved to the Alhambra . There he made trucks .

In 1916, 67 Durocar passenger cars were still registered in California .

vehicles

From 1906 to 1907 an unnamed model was in the range. The two-cylinder engine with an output of 26 hp drove the rear axle via a cardan shaft . The chassis had a wheelbase of 259 cm . Superstructures were available as runabouts , touring cars and landaulets .

In 1908, the runabout was the Model K and the touring cars for model L . The landaulet was omitted.

In 1909 the wheelbase was lengthened slightly to 264 cm. Runabouts and touring cars remained in the range, while Model N was added as a tourabout .

In the period from 1910 to 1911, the previous models were called Model 26 . The wheelbase was now 267 cm. Touring cars and Tourabout were available. Two models with four-cylinder engines were new products . The smaller one was the Model 35 , whose engine had an output of 35 hp. The chassis had a wheelbase of 290 cm. The Model 45 had a 45 hp engine and a 315 cm wheelbase.

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1906-1907 2 26th 259 Runabout, touring car, landaulet
1908 Model K 2 26th 259 Runabout
1908 Model L 2 26th 259 Touring car
1909 Model K 2 26th 264 Runabout
1909 Model L 2 26th 264 Touring car
1909 To model 2 26th 264 Tourabout
1910-1911 Model 26 2 26th 267 Touring car, tourabout
1910-1911 Model 35 4th 35 290 Touring car
1910-1911 Model 45 4th 45 315 Touring car

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. 505-506 (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. 470-471 (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. 505-506 (English).
  2. ↑ George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 470-471 (English).