Fox Motor Car Company

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Fox Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1919
resolution 1924
Reason for dissolution insolvency
Seat Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , USA
management Ansley H. Fox
Branch Automobiles

Fox Motor Car Company shares dated December 13, 1920
Lettering on the building

Fox Motor Car Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Ansley H. Fox ran the AH Fox Gun Company until 1912 . He then founded the Fox Pneumatic Shock absorbers Company , the Fox Motor Company for engine manufacturing, the Fox Automobile Development Company and the Ansley H. Fox Company for the production of machine guns during the First World War .

On November 21, 1919, he founded the Fox Motor Car Company . The seat was in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania . In 1920 the Fox Motor Company was incorporated. Vehicle production was announced in March 1921. In the first year 2000 vehicles should be built. Frank H. Golding of the Holmes Automobile Company became general manager and treasurer in July 1921. HO Swanson, previously with HH Franklin Manufacturing Company , became chief engineer. The production of automobiles started slowly. The brand name was Fox . In January 1922, vehicles were shown at the auto shows in New York City , Philadelphia, Chicago , Boston , Pittsburgh and Atlanta . Production ended in December 1923. The bankruptcy followed in 1924 . The competition was too strong.

Estimates of the number of production vary between 25 and 3,000. A few hundred are likely.

A reorganization as Fox Holding Company failed.

vehicles

A special feature of the vehicles was the air cooling of the engines. Therefore, they were compared to Franklin's vehicles, which were smaller, less powerful and cheaper. Cadillac is named as a competitor. All engines were six-cylinder engines with OHV valve control , aluminum pistons, 4000 cm³ displacement and 50 hp .

The range only consisted of the A-1 model . The prototype from 1921 had a wheelbase of 325 cm . It was bodied as an open touring car.

The series model from 1922 had a longer chassis of 335 cm . There was a choice of touring cars and limousines , both with five seats.

In 1923 a three-seater coupé was added.

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1921 Model A-1 6th 50 325 Touring car
1922 Model A-1 6th 50 335 5-seater touring car, 5-seater sedan
1923 Model A-1 6th 50 335 5-seater touring car, 3-seater coupé, 5-seater sedan

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. 603 (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. 586 (English).

Web links

Commons : Fox Motor Car Company  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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. 603 (English).
  2. a b c d e f 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. 586 (English).