FV Whyland & Company

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FV Whyland & Company
legal form Company
founding 1914
resolution 1914
Seat Buffalo , New York , USA
management Frank V. Whyland
Branch Automobiles

FV Whyland & Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles . Another source confirms the brand name and the period, but not the company name.

Company history

Frank V. Whyland ran the Whyland-Nelson Motor Car Company until 1913 . In 1914 he founded the new company in Buffalo , New York State . The designer was Edward T. Birdsall, who later also worked for Gary Automobile Manufacturing Company , Pennsylvania Motor Car Company , Moline Plow Company and Stephens Motor Car Company . In the same year the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Whyland . 1000 vehicles were planned in the first year. Production ended in 1914. In total, only a few vehicles were built.

vehicles

The only model was called the Cyclecar . However, it is unclear whether it met the criteria. It had a four-cylinder , four-stroke , air-cooled engine . The chassis had a wheelbase of 254 cm and a track width of 142 cm . This gauge was common in America, but not for cycle cars, which were often narrower. The original price was 450 US dollars . The open body as a roadster offered space for two people.

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. 1542 (English).
  • George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1740 (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. 1542 (English).
  2. ↑ George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1740 (English).
  3. ↑ Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry . McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864-0972-3 , pp. 304 (English).
  4. ^ Robert D. Dluhy: American Automobiles of the Brass Era. Essential Specifications of 4,000+ Gasoline Powered Passenger Cars, 1906-1915, with a Statistical and Historical Overview. McFarland & Company, Jefferson NC 2013, ISBN 978-0-7864-7136-2 , p. 142.