Friend Motors Corporation

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Friend Motors Corporation
legal form Corporation
founding 1920
resolution 1922
Reason for dissolution Bankrupt
Seat Pontiac , Michigan , USA
management Otis C. Friend
Branch Automobiles

Friend Motors Corporation was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Otis C. Friend had experience in automotive engineering as a car salesman for Locomobile and later as sales manager and president of the Mitchell Motors Company . In early 1920 he took over the Olympian Motors Company from Pontiac , Michigan . He started his own company in the same city. He planned to continue producing the Olympian for the time being, while designing a new model. Three vehicles from the new Friend brand were exhibited at the New York Automobile Show in January 1921. Production came to a standstill at the end of 1921. By then around 50 vehicles had been built. Bankruptcy followed on May 1, 1922 .

vehicles

The only model of the Friend resembled the last Olympian . A four-cylinder engine with 31 hp propelled the vehicles. The chassis had a wheelbase of 284 cm . The bodies available were roadsters and coupés , each with three seats, as well as touring cars and sedans , each with five seats.

A vehicle with a six-cylinder engine was announced but not completed.

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. 615 (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. 594 (English).

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. 615 (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. 594 (English).