Hal Motor Car Company

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HA Lozier Company
Hal Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1915
resolution 1918
Reason for dissolution insolvency
Seat Cleveland , Ohio , USA
Branch Automobiles

Hal from 1915
Hal from 1916
Hal from 1917

Hal Motor Car Company , previously HA Lozier Company , was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Harry A. Lozier had left the Lozier Motor Company . He founded the HA Lozier Company in 1915 . In January 1916, he presented a prototype at the New York Automobile Show . Series production began in the summer of 1916 in Cleveland , Ohio, at the former Royal Tourist facility . The brand name was Hal , also spelled HAL and HAL .

Lozier left the company for health reasons in September 1916. A. Ward Foote of the Foote-Burt Machine Company of the same town became the new president. He carried out the renaming to Hal Motor Car Company . By October 1916, 200 vehicles had already been built. At the time there were ten vehicles a day. Shortages of materials due to the First World War led to problems. In October 1917 there were rumors of a merger with Abbott Corporation that didn't work out.

At the end of 1917, Frank B. Willis became the new president. He presented vehicles again in January 1918 at the Chicago Automobile Show . A little later, Willis resigned.

Bankruptcy began in February 1918 . The assets, including ten unsold vehicles, were auctioned in April 1918. Stearns acquired the factory.

The later US President Warren G. Harding was one of the buyers of a Hal.

vehicles

The vehicles were called Twelve . They had a V12 engine from the Weidely Motors Company . It was officially rated at 40 hp, but according to the company it had up to 100 hp . The chassis had a wheelbase of 343 cm .

In 1916 there was the Model 12 . It was available as a touring car with seven seats and as a roadster with two seats.

The Model 21 followed in 1917 . A Brougham , a seven-seater sedan and a four-seater Cloverleaf roadster supplemented the bodies available.

In 1918, customers had the choice between limousines, town cars and touring cars, each with seven seats, a two-seat roadster and a four-seat Shamrock roadster .

Model overview

year model execution cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1916 Twelve Model 12 12 40 343 7-seater touring car, 2-seater roadster
1917 Twelve Model 21 12 40 343 Roadster 2-seater, sedan 7-seater, Brougham, Cloverleaf Roadster 4-seater, touring car 7-seater
1918 Twelve Model 25 12 40 343 7-seater sedan, 7-seater town car, 7-seater touring car, 2-seater roadster, 4-seater Shamrock Roadster

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. 667-668 (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. 662 (English).

Web links

Commons : Hal Motor Car 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. 667-668 (English).
  2. ↑ a b 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. 662 (English).