Harvard Motor Car Company

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Pioneer Motor Car Company
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Harvard Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1915
resolution 1921
Seat Hyattsville , Maryland , USA
management Henry R. Carroll
Branch Automobiles

Harvard Motor Car Company , previously Pioneer Motor Car Company and Harvard-Pioneer Motor Car Company , was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Charles Herreshoff had left Detroit , Michigan , the Herreshoff Motor Company in 1914 . He planned a fresh start as the Herreshoff Light Car Company in Troy , New York . However, there was already a company of the same name in Detroit, headed by Northrup R. Holmes, who had sold Herreshoff vehicles. The two gentlemen planned a joint production in Troy. Herreshoff owned a prototype and Holmes had the blueprints for it. Then Herreshoff suddenly left the country and moved to South America with the prototype. Holmes founded the Pioneer Motor Car Company in Troy in 1914 . A little later, the company was renamed Harvard-Pioneer Motor Car Company . Theodore Litchfield was the designer. They made automobiles in Troy. The brand name was Harvard .

In early 1916, Holmes met George N. Nay from Hudson Falls , also in New York State. He sold Cole , Mitchell , Overland and Saxon vehicles with his Adirondack Motor Car Company . The vehicles were produced there between 1916 and 1919. 80 vehicles have survived during this period.

On October 18, 1919, the company was renamed Harvard Motor Car Company . Holmes and Nay were the owners. Walter Bulow, who previously worked for American Fiat and Lozier , revised the vehicles.

In 1920, Washington, DC-based Henry R. Carroll and the Carter brothers took over the company. They relocated to Hyattsville , Maryland . Production ended in 1921.

vehicles

The vehicles were mainly intended for export to New Zealand . So they were right-hand drive .

From 1915 to 1919 there was the Model 4-20 . It had a four-cylinder engine from the Model Gas Engine Works , which was specified with 14.3 hp. The chassis had a wheelbase of 254 cm . There was a choice of roadster and coupé , both with two seats.

The Four was in the range from 1920 to 1921 . It had a four-cylinder Sterling engine with 35 hp . The wheelbase was 274 cm. The only structure was an open touring car with space for four people.

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1915-1919 Model 4-20 4th 14.3 254 Roadster 2-seater, Coupé 2-seater
1920-1921 Four 4th 35 274 4-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. 681 (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. 674 (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. 681 (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. 674 (English).