Earl Motor Manufacturing Company

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Earl Motors Inc.
Earl Motor Manufacturing Company
legal form Company
founding 1921
resolution 1924
Seat Jackson , Michigan , USA
management George C. Scobie
Branch Automobiles

Earl Motor Manufacturing Company , previously Earl Motors Inc. , was an American manufacturer of automobiles . Another source gives Earl Motor Company as the last company name.

Company history

Clarence A. Earl founded Earl Motors Inc. in October 1921 as the successor company to Briscoe Motor Corporation . The seat was also in Jackson , Michigan . George C. Scobie was vice president. In 1922 the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Earl . In November 1922, Earl retired and moved to the National Motor Vehicle Company .

Scobie became the new president. He renamed the company Earl Motor Manufacturing Company in early 1923 . Production came to a standstill at the end of the year. In 1924 the company was dissolved. Around 2000 vehicles were built in total. One source gives 1474 vehicles for 1922 and 406 for 1923.

There was no connection with the Earl Motor Car Company , which used the same brand name years earlier.

vehicles

Only the model 40 was on offer . It was an evolution of the last Briscoe model. The vehicles were powered by a four-cylinder engine with a displacement of 3182 cc and 37.5 hp . The chassis had a wheelbase of 284 cm .

In 1922 there was a touring car with five seats, a roadster with two seats, a Brougham with four seats, a sedan with five seats and two versions of a delivery van .

In 1923 the brougham and delivery trucks were discontinued. A four-seater convertible , a four-seater coupé and a five-seater Sport Phaeton supplemented the range of bodies.

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1922 Model 40 4th 37.5 284 5-seater touring car, 2-seater roadster, 4-seater Brougham, 5-seater sedan, screen delivery, panel delivery
1923 Model 40 4th 37.5 284 5-seater touring car, 4-seater convertible, 2-seater roadster, 5-seater sedan, 4-seater coupé, 5-seater Sport Phaeton

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. 513 (English).
  • George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 1: A-F . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 479 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c 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. 513 (English).
  2. ↑ a b George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 1: A-F . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 479 (English).
  3. ↑ Automobile Quarterly Volume 32, Issue 2.