Griswold Motor Company

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Griswold Motor Company
legal form Company
founding 1907
resolution 1907
Seat Detroit , Michigan , USA
management JP La Vigne
Branch Automobiles

Griswold Motor Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles . Another source uses the name Griswold Motor Car Company .

Company history

JP La Vigne manufactured a vehicle in May 1907 and founded the company in the summer of 1907. The seat was in Detroit , Michigan . The brand name was Griswold . Production ended in 1907. In total, only a few vehicles were built.

The Blomstrom Manufacturing Company took over a patent .

vehicles

What was striking about the vehicles was the track width . While many American models had 56 inches (142 cm) gauge, La Vigne chose 55 inches (140 cm). The reason for this is not known. The air-cooled two - cylinder four-stroke engines were mounted in the front of the vehicle and powered the rear axle. The superstructures were open runabouts with two seats and one jump seat.

There were three models to choose from, which differed in terms of engine power and the length of the chassis . In the 10 HP the engine made 10 HP , in the 15 HP 15 HP and in the 20 HP 20 HP. The wheelbase was 229 cm for the weakest model, 254 cm for the medium model and 279 cm for the strongest model.

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1907 10 HP 2 10 229 Runabout
1907 15 HP 2 15th 254 Runabout
1907 20 HP 2 20th 279 Runabout

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. 662 (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. 650 (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. 662 (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. 650 (English).