Flyer Motor Car Company

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Flyer Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1913
resolution 1914
Seat Mount Clemens , Michigan , USA
Branch Automobiles

The Flyers Motor Car Company was a short-lived American automakers before the First World War .

description

The company began in 1913 with the production of a small car in Elizabeth ( New Jersey ).

The flyer was by the press as Cyclecar considered, although it is more like a "real" car the size and equipment as Ford Model T corresponded. The manufacturer therefore spoke of a "replica of today's larger modern automobile, only in a smaller version".

The design for the Flyer came from AA Gloetzner, who had previously worked at Olds Motor Works . Soon the Thomas Howard Company in Brooklyn ( New York ) also began producing the car for the east coast . As a location promotion, the Flyer Motor Car Company received attractive offers to relocate the company headquarters to Minneapolis ( Minnesota ) or Mount Clemens ( Michigan ). The latter was chosen, but had to close in 1914.

Glötzner then accepted the position of chief engineer at Bour-Davis .

technology

The Flyer was an attractive car that offered more than you would normally expect from a voiturette . The car was only available as a two-seater roadster . The wheelbase was generously dimensioned at 2540 mm (100 inches) and the track at 1422 mm (56 inches) also roughly corresponded to that of a car . The engine was a water-cooled four - cylinder with 20 HP according to the calculation method of the time. There was a conventional three-speed gearbox, the power was transferred to the rear axle by a cardan shaft and the vehicle was provided with an electric starter and full electrical equipment at an initial price of US $ 495, later US $ 600.

literature

  • Beverly Ray Kimes, Henry Austin Clark Jr .: Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805-1942. Krause Publications, Iola 1985, ISBN 0-87341-045-9 , pp. 545-546.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805-1942
  2. ^ Kimes / Clark: Catalog of American Cars , p. 340; trans. "Reproduction of the larger modern automobile of today only on lesser size"