Henderson Motor Car Company

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Henderson Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1912
resolution 1914
Seat Indianapolis , Indiana , USA
management CP Henderson
Branch Automobiles

Henderson Motor Car Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The brothers CP and RP Henderson left the Cole Motor Car Company in 1912 . They then started their own company in Indianapolis , Indiana . CP became President and Sales Manager, RP Vice President and General Manager, and Chester Ricker Design Engineer. They started producing automobiles in the same year. The brand name was Henderson . Production ended in 1914 when the money ran out. The brothers switched back to Cole.

WG Henderson, the son of one of the brothers, manufactured Henderson motorcycles from 1911 .

vehicles

From 1912 to 1913 there was only one model series in the range. The four-cylinder engine developed 44 hp . The chassis had a 295 cm wheelbase . Model 44 was a two-seat roadster , Model 46 was a five-seat touring car , Model 48 was a seven-seat touring car, and Model 56 was a three-seat roadster.

In 1914 there was the Light Four . The engine was now specified with 27 hp. The wheelbase remained unchanged. There were no three- and seven-seaters. Technically identical was the Deluxe Four , which was a bit more expensive and was also available as a three-seater coupé . The top model was the Six . Its six-cylinder engine was specified with 34 hp. The wheelbase was 320 cm. It was available as a touring car with five seats and as a roadster with two seats.

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1912-1913 Model 44 4th 44 295 Roadster 2-seater
1912-1913 Model 46 4th 44 295 5-seater touring car
1912-1913 Model 48 4th 44 295 7-seater touring car
1912-1913 Model 56 4th 44 295 Roadster 3-seater
1914 Light Four 4th 27 295 5-seater touring car, 2-seater roadster
1914 Deluxe Four 4th 27 295 5-seater touring car, 2-seater roadster, 3-seater coupé
1914 Six 6th 34 320 5-seater touring car, 2-seater 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. 695-696 (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. 683 (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. 695-696 (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. 683 (English).