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Falls Machine Company
Falls Motors Corporation
legal form Corporation
founding 1901
resolution 1924
Seat Sheboygan Falls , Wisconsin , USA
Branch Engines , automobiles

Falls Motors Corporation , previously the Falls Machine Company , was an American manufacturer of engines and automobiles .

Company history

The Falls Machine Company was founded in 1901 in Sheboygan Falls , Wisconsin . At first she manufactured milling machines and other machines for woodworking. From 1908 a single cylinder engine was developed that was used as an industrial engine or for agricultural purposes. Montgomery Ward was a bulk buyer. A few years later, gasoline engines for automobiles were added. Around that time, the name was changed to Falls Motors Corporation . The previous production area was transferred to the Jenkins Machinery Company . The engines were supplied to various automobile manufacturers who did not manufacture any engines themselves. In 1921 and 1924 a few automobiles were also made. The brand name was Falls . With many small automakers forced to quit in the 1920s, business declined. Everything was sold in late 1924, including the factory building to Jenkins.

Products

Vehicle engines

Until 1923, only four and six cylinder engines were produced . In 1923, an eight-cylinder in - line engine was introduced.

The engines were bought by: Apperson Brothers Automobile Company , Champion Motors Corporation , Courier Motors Company , Dort Motor Car Company , Elgin Motors , Farner Motor Car Company , Fremont Motors Corporation , Gardner Motor Company , Grant Motor Car Corporation , Gray-Dort Motors , Henney Motor Company , Hollier Automobile Company , Kelsey Motor Company , Maibohm Motors Company , Moon Motor Car Company , Ogren Motor Car Company, and Velie .

vehicles

The vehicles from 1921 had a revised chassis from Elgin Motors as well as their own engine. The roadster body shape has been handed down.

In 1924, a vehicle with its own eight-cylinder engine was created. It was probably originally a touring car or a limousine . Before the Second World War , it was converted into a racing car. The vehicle still exists.

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. 558 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q 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. 558 (English).
  2. ↑ Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry . McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864-0972-3 , pp. 110 (English).
  3. ↑ 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. 274 (English).
  4. ↑ 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. 559 (English).
  5. ↑ 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. 614 (English).
  6. ↑ 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. 646 (English).
  7. ↑ 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. 709 (English).
  8. ↑ 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. 799-800 (English).
  9. ↑ 1920 Falls Eight (accessed February 10, 2018)