Fawick Motor Car Company

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Silent Sioux Auto Manufacturing Company
Fawick Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1908
resolution 1912
Seat Sioux Falls , South Dakota , USA
management Thomas L. Fawick
Branch Automobiles

Fawick Motor Car Company , previously the Silent Sioux Auto Manufacturing Company , was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Thomas L. Fawick of Sioux Falls , South Dakota, designed his first car in 1908 at the age of eighteen. Businessmen John FD Mundt, RJ Wells, Richard Brown and GW Burnside were interested. They founded the company and made a second car. The brand name was Silent Sioux .

The name was changed in 1909 or 1910. In addition to the previous Thomas L. Fawick and John FD Mundt, Nevis O. Fawick and Harry N. Hanson were also involved. The brand name was now Fawick , possibly with the addition of Flyer . Production ended in 1912. During this time five vehicles were built.

vehicles

Fawick Flyer 40 HP Foredoor Touring with a body by Abresch (1910.)

The first car had a two-cylinder engine .

A four-cylinder engine of Waukesha Engine drive to the second vehicle. The Charles Abresch Company in Milwaukee made the aluminum body according to Fawick's plans. This is one of the first bodies made from sheet aluminum over a wooden structure; Usually superstructures were made from pressed steel. The procedure used here was complex and required a great deal of specialist knowledge. The Fawick Flyer also had a four-cylinder Waukesha engine. Here it developed 40 HP from a displacement of around 5.8 liters with an ALAM rating of 36.1 HP. The wheelbase was 315 cm. The open body of the touring car offered space for five people. The original price was 3,000 US dollars .

A vehicle from 1910 had four doors. At that time it was said that this was the first car with front doors from American production. The then President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt was driven once in this vehicle.

Fawick gave up production of his own accord, although the vehicles could be sold at a good profit. He expected that future automobile manufacturing would require more investment than he could provide or organize. He later made several valuable inventions that he patented, including a rubber mount for the engine suspension in the chassis, which the Chrysler Group first took over in large-scale production in the late 1920s, or a clutch that he offered as a supplier in his Fawick Corporation .

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. 560 (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. 560 (English).
  • Robert D. Dluhy: American Automobiles of the Brass Era. McFarland & Company, Jefferson 2013, ISBN 0-7864-7136-0 , p. 77.

Web links

Commons : Fawick Vehicles  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i 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. 560 (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. 560 (English).
  3. ↑ a b Coachbuilt: Charles Abresch Co. (English)
  4. ^ Robert D. Dluhy: American Automobiles of the Brass Era. McFarland & Company, Jefferson 2013, ISBN 0-7864-7136-0 , p. 77.

Remarks

  1. ↑ The ALAM ( Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers ) was the first US American standards organization, from around 1904-1911. The power is calculated: cylinder bore ² (here: 4.75 inches, a rounded value) × number of cylinders; the result is divided by 2.5. The successor organization NACC ( National Automobile Chamber of Commerce ) used the same formula from which the SAE-PS was later developed.