Garford (vehicle brand)

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1919 Garford fire engine
Garford omnibus from 1926

Garford was an American vehicle brand.

Brand history

The Federal Manufacturing Company from Elyria , Ohio began producing parts for vehicle manufacturers in 1903. Arthur L. Garford took over the company and renamed it the Garford Company . He delivered complete chassis . The customers were Ardsley Motor Car Company , Cleveland Automobile Company , Gaeth Motor Car Company , Knight & Kilbourne Company , Rainier Motor Car Company and Royal . The largest customer was the Studebaker Corporation . In October 1907, vehicles with the own brand name Garford were presented for the first time at the Grand Central Palace Show and then offered. This production ended in 1908 under pressure from Studebaker.

Commercial vehicles were built from 1909 .

After Studebaker took over the Everitt-Metzger-Flanders Company , the agreement with Garford ended. In January 1911, Garford vehicles were at the New York Automobile Show . The lack of a dealer network turned out to be a disadvantage in terms of marketing. In 1912 Willys-Overland took over the car department and continued to use the brand name until 1913.

The Garford Company continued to manufacture commercial vehicles under the Garford name. In 1915 the company was renamed Garford Motor Truck Company and moved to Lima , Ohio.

Between 1927 and 1932, the Relay Motors Company made the vehicles from the same town.

The last manufacturer in 1933 was Consolidated Motors Corporation , which was also based in Lima.

vehicles

Passenger cars

In model year 1908 there were two different models in the range. Both had a four-cylinder engine . In the Model A , the engine developed 30 hp . The chassis had a wheelbase of 264 cm . Touring cars , town cars , runabouts and landaulets have been handed down as superstructures . The Model B had an engine with 40 hp. The wheelbase was 290 cm. This model was available as a touring car, runabout, limousine and landaulet.

In 1911 there was only the Model G-7 . The engine developed 40 hp. Touring cars with four, five and seven seats were based on a chassis with a 298 cm wheelbase. There was also a sedan with a 312 cm wheelbase.

In 1912 it was further developed into the Model G-8 . The engine power remained the same. The wheelbase was a uniform 302 cm. Sedans, landaulets, touring cars with five, six and seven seats as well as a roadster with two seats were available. The Model G-12 was a new entry-level model with the same wheelbase but only 30 hp. The touring cars offered space for four to five people. The sedan, landaulet and two-seater roadster corresponded to the G-8 model; the top model was the G-14 model . It had a six-cylinder engine with 50 hp. The wheelbase was 352 cm. In addition to the well-known sedans, landaulets and two-seater roadsters, there were touring cars with four and six seats.

In 1913, the wheelbase of the G-12 was reduced to 300 cm. There was a choice of limousine and landaulet, each with five seats. The G-14 model now offered a 343 cm wheelbase. For this, the engine output was increased to 60 hp. The touring car had either five or seven seats. Limousines and landaulets always had seven seats. The new model G-15 ranked between these two models . The six-cylinder engine had 50 hp. The wheelbase was 325 cm. The touring car had five seats and the roadster two seats. There was also a town car for the first time in years.

commercial vehicles

Buses and trucks were on offer . Until the mid-1920s, some of the vehicles had chain drives. The trucks are called five, seven and ten-ton trucks.

Car model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1908 Model A 4th 30th 264 Touring car, town car, runabout, landaulet
1908 Model B 4th 40 290 Touring car, runabout, limousine, landaulet
1911 Model G-7 4th 40 298 Touring car 4-seat and 5-seat and 7-seat
1911 Model G-7 4th 40 312 limousine
1912 Model G-8 4th 40 302 Limousine, landaulet, touring car 5-seat, 6-seat and 7-seat, roadster 2-seat
1912 Model G-12 4th 30th 302 Limousine, landaulet, touring car 4-seat and 5-seat, roadster 2-seat
1912 Model G-14 6th 50 352 Limousine, landaulet, touring car 4-seater and 6-seater, roadster 2-seater
1913 Model G-12 4th 30th 300 5-seater sedan, 5-seater landaulet
1913 Model G-14 6th 60 343 5-seater and 7-seater touring cars, 7-seater sedan, 7-seater landaulet
1913 Model G-15 6th 50 325 5-seater touring car, 2-seater roadster, town car

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. 629-630 (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. 608 (English).

Web links

Commons : Garford  - collection of images, 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. 629-630 (English).
  2. ↑ 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. 608 (English).
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Halwart Schrader , Jan P. Norbye: The truck lexicon. All brands 1900 to today. Schrader Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-613-01837-3 , p. 68.