Front Drive Motor Company

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Gregory-Craun Motor Company
Front Drive Motor Company
legal form Company
founding 1920
resolution 1922
Seat Kansas City , Missouri , USA
management Ben F. Gregory
Branch Automobiles

Front Drive Motor Company , previously Gregory-Craun Motor Company , was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Ben F. Gregory (1890–1974) was a fan of front-wheel drive . In 1920 he founded the Gregory-Craun Motor Company in Kansas City , Missouri, together with William H. Craun . There he made a prototype in 1920 . Some racing cars followed. In 1921 he presented a vehicle at the Kansas City Automobile Show .

In early 1922 it was renamed Front Drive Motor Company . Vehicles have now been manufactured in cooperation with the OE Szekely Company . The brand name was Gregory . Production ended in 1922. A total of between 10 and 30 vehicles were built.

vehicles

The specialty of the vehicle was the front-wheel drive. The prototype of 1920 was based on a chassis of Scripps-Booth .

One of the racing cars had an aircraft engine made by the Curtiss Airplane and Motor Company , the Curtiss OX-5 . Another got a V8 engine from Hispano-Suiza .

The series vehicles had a four-cylinder engine with 22 hp . The chassis had a wheelbase of 279 cm . The only structure was an open roadster with two seats. The original price was 1550 US dollars .

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. 659 (English).
  • George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 2: G-O . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 648 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 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. 659 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 2: G-O . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 648 (English).