Great Western Automobile Company

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Great Western Automobile Company

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founding 1909
resolution 1916
Seat Peru , Indiana , USA
management EA Myers
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Great Western Model 40 from 1914
Advert for the Great Western Forty from 1912

Great Western Automobile Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

EA Myers ran the Model Automobile Company . On September 8, 1909, he founded the new company in Peru in Indiana . President was Milton Kraus. They started producing automobiles in 1910. The brand name was Great Western . Bankruptcy began in August 1913 . Kraus withdrew, Myers took over the management. In 1914, work began on a prototype with a special engine that did not go into series production. In 1915, the company signed a contract with Rayfield Motor Car Company to build vehicles for Rayfield, but failed to honor the contract and was sued. In 1916, the tried and tested four-cylinder model was replaced by a much weaker and cheaper six-cylinder model. One source calls these three processes a sequence of errors.

Production ended in 1916.

vehicles

In 1910, three vehicle types were available in a total of four designs. All had four-cylinder engines . In the Thirty it made 30 hp . The chassis had a wheelbase of 269 ​​cm . The Model 20 was a five-seat touring car and the Model 20 A was a three- to four-seat runabout . The Forty had a 40 hp engine, a wheelbase of 290 cm and, as Model 21, a five-seater touring car body. The top model was the Fifty . Its engine developed 50 hp. The wheelbase of 310 cm enabled a body as a seven-seater touring car.

1911 saw the restriction to the medium-sized model. Engine power and wheelbase remained unchanged. Are Narrated Roadster with three seats, demi-tonneau Roadster with four seats and touring cars, full- torpedo and semi-torpedo with five seats.

The following bodies are named for 1912: Torpedo Roadster with two seats, Demi-Tonneau Runabout with four seats, and Semi-Torpedo, touring cars and four-door Detachable touring cars with five seats each.

In 1913 the wheelbase was extended to 300 cm. Two-seat torpedo roadster, four-seat semi-torpedo, five-seat touring car and a five-seat sedan were available.

In 1914 there were only a two-seat runabout, a four-seat touring car and a five-seat touring car to choose from.

In 1915 the wheelbase was extended to 310 cm. Various touring cars offered space for four, five, six or seven people. There were sedans with four and six seats. A roadster with two seats and a convertible coupé with four seats are also mentioned.

In 1916, the Six replaced all previous models with a six-cylinder engine . Its performance was given as 21.6 hp. The wheelbase was 300 cm. The only structure was a five-seater touring car.

Model overview

year model execution cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1910 Thirty Model 20 4th 30th 269 5-seater touring car
1910 Thirty Model 20 A 4th 30th 269 Runabout 3-seat and 4-seat
1910 Forty Model 21 4th 40 290 5-seater touring car
1910 Fifty Model 22 4th 50 310 7-seater touring car
1911 Forty 4th 40 290 Touring car 5-seater, Demi-Tonneau Roadster 4-seater, Semi-Torpedo 5-seater, Roadster 3-seater, Full-Torpedo 5-seater
1912 Forty 4th 40 290 Detachable touring car 4-door 5-seat, Semi-Torpedo 5-seat, touring car 5-seat, Torpedo-Roadster 2-seat, Demi-Tonneau Runabout 4-seat
1913 Forty 4th 40 300 Torpedo Roadster 2-seat, Semi-Torpedo 4-seat, Touring car 5-seat, Sedan 5-seat
1914 Forty 4th 40 300 Touring car 4-seater and 5-seater, runabout 2-seater
1915 Forty 4th 40 310 4-seater and 5-seater touring cars and 6-seater and 7-seater, roadster 2-seater, convertible coupé 2-seater, saloon 4-seater and 6-seater
1916 Six 6th 21.6 300 5-seater touring 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. 657-658 (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. 647 (English).

Web links

Commons : Great Western Automobile Company  - Collection of Pictures, 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. 657-658 (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. 647 (English).