Flanders Manufacturing Company

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Flanders Manufacturing Company
legal form Company
founding 1911
resolution 1913
Reason for dissolution insolvency
Seat Pontiac , Michigan , USA
management
  • Walter E. Flanders
  • Clement Studebaker Junior
Branch Motor vehicles

Motorcycle from Flanders

Flanders Manufacturing Company was an American manufacturer of motor vehicles .

Company history

Walter E. Flanders and Clement Studebaker Junior founded the company in January 1911. The company was initially based in Chelsea and later in Pontiac , both in Michigan . First, they made motorcycles ago, the Flanders Bi-Mobile were called. In 1912 the production of passenger cars began . The brand name was Flanders , possibly with the addition of Electric . The idea for this came from C. Leroy Pelletier.

Less than 100 vehicles were built. Economic problems led to bankruptcy in 1913 . Pelletier bought what was left of the company and then founded the Tiffany Electric Company .

Other US manufacturers of passenger cars of the Flanders brand were Everitt-Metzger-Flanders Company (1909–1912), Flanders Motor Company (1913) and Flanders Electric Company (1914–1915).

vehicles

Around 2500 of the motorcycle were made.

The car was an electric car . It had a 100- inch (2540 mm) wheelbase chassis . It was initially available in two variants , the Colonial Coupé and the Victoria, each priced at $ 1,775 . They looked like other electric vehicles of the time, such as the Columbia , but it was noteworthy that the Flanders bodies were around 35 cm lower.

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. 567 (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. 553 (English).

Web links

Commons : Flanders Manufacturing Company  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 567 (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. 553 (English).