Vogue Motor Car Company

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Economy Motor Company
Vogue Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1916
resolution 1923
Seat Tiffin , Ohio , USA
Branch Automobiles

Vogue Motor Car Company , emerged from the Economy Motor Company , was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The Economy Motor Company was founded in Tiffin , Ohio in 1916 . HE Cook, CJ Larger, Stanton J. Lewis, John A. Manecke, Raymond W. Miller, and George Wiseman were involved. Wiseman was the designer. They started with the production of automobiles. The brand name was initially Economy .

In April 1917 it came to a merger with the Bellefontaine Automobile Company from Bellefontaine . Their work was used until the end of 1919 and then abandoned.

From 1920 the company traded as Vogue Motor Car Company . The brand name was Economy-Vogue in 1920 and only Vogue from 1921 . Production ended in 1922. In 1923 the company was dissolved. It had tax debts.

A total of 630 vehicles were built.

There was no connection with the Economy Motor Car Company , which a few years earlier also produced Economy vehicles.

vehicles

Brand name Economy

No model name has survived for the model from 1916 to 1917. A four-cylinder engine powered the vehicles. The chassis had a 292 cm wheelbase . There was a choice of touring cars , touring sedans and a three-dor roadster . This five-seat roadster had a door on one side of the vehicle and two doors on the other. The rear gave access to the rear seats.

From 1918 to 1919 there were two models. The G 4-36 had a four-cylinder engine that was specified with 22.5 hp . The C 8-48 had a V8 engine from Ferro , which was specified with 28.8 hp. The wheelbase of 292 cm and the superstructure as a five-seater and five-seater touring car Chummy -Roadster were identical.

Brand name Economy-Vogue

The only model was the 6-46 . The six-cylinder engine was specified with 45.8 hp. The wheelbase corresponded to the previous models. A touring car with five seats, a roadster with four seats, a sedan with five seats and a coupé with three seats were available.

Brand name Vogue

The 6-55 also had a six-cylinder engine, but it was specified with 55 hp. The wheelbase was lengthened to 315 cm. Touring cars and coupé offered space for five people. There was also a limousine with seven seats.

Model overview

year brand model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1916-1917 Economy 4th 292 Touring car, touring limousine, Thre-Dor Roadster
1918-1919 Economy G 4-36 4th 22.5 292 5-seater touring car, 5-seater Chummy Roadster
1918-1919 Economy C 8-48 8th 28.8 292 5-seater touring car, 5-seater Chummy Roadster
1920 Economy Vogue 6-46 6th 45.8 292 5-seater touring car, 4-seater roadster, 5-seater sedan, 3-seater coupé
1921-1922 Vogue 6-55 6th 55 315 5-seater touring car, 5-seater coupé, 7-seater sedan

Production numbers

year Production number
1917 87
1918 221
1919 161
1920 73
1921 61
1922 27
total 630

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. 517 (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. 481 (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. 517 (English).
  2. ↑ 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. 481 (English).