Jones Motor Car Company

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Jones Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1914
resolution 1920
Reason for dissolution insolvency
Seat Wichita , Kansas , USA
management John J. Jones
Branch Motor vehicles

Jones Motor Car Company was an American manufacturer of motor vehicles .

Company history

John J. Jones had gotten rich as an automobile dealer for Ford . He founded the company for his own vehicle production in Wichita , Kansas in 1914 . He manufactured passenger cars and commercial vehicles. The brand name was Jones . At times 985 people were employed. On February 20, 1920, a fire destroyed two of the plant's five buildings as well as 14 complete vehicles and 50 to 100 bodies. The post-war recession made matters worse. The bankruptcy began in August 1920 .

Passenger cars

All vehicles had a six-cylinder engine from the Continental Motors Company . From 1914 to 1915 a bore of 85.725 mm and a stroke of 111.125 mm resulted in a displacement of 3848 cm³ . The engine was specified with 21.6 hp . The chassis had a 300 cm wheelbase . The only structure was a touring car with five seats.

There were no changes in 1916.

The 29 HP appeared in 1917 . Its engine was specified with 29 hp. The wheelbase was lengthened to 318 cm. The five-seat touring car was joined by a two-seat roadster and a five-seat touring limousine.

In 1918 there was the touring car with five seats, a roadster with four seats, a sedan with seven seats and a Victoria with four seats.

From 1919 the engine output was given as 29.6 hp. The wheelbase was now 320 cm. Roadsters and Speedsters each with four seats and a touring car with seven seats have been handed down. A special feature was an Oil Field Special , a mixture of roadster and pick-up .

In 1920 touring cars with five and seven seats, Victoria with five and seven seats, roadsters with two and five seats, speedsters with four seats and the Oil Field Roadster were available.

Car model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1914-1915 21.6 HP 6th 21.6 300 5-seater touring car
1916 21.6 HP 6th 21.6 300 5-seater touring car
1917 29 HP 6th 29 318 5-seater touring car, 2-seater roadster, 5-seater touring limousine
1918 29 HP 6th 29 318 5-seater touring car, 4-seater roadster, 7-seater sedan, 4-seater Victoria
1919 29.6 HP 6th 29.6 320 Roadster 4-seater, touring car 7-seater, Speedster 4-seater, Oil Field Special
1920 29.6 HP 6th 29.6 320 Touring car 5-seat and 7-seat, Speedster 4-seat, Victoria 5-seat and 7-seat, Roadster 2-seat and 5-seat, Oil Field Special

Car production figures

A total of 3902 cars were built, as can be seen in the following list.

year Production number
1915 125
1916 275
1917 827
1918 1025
1919 827
1920 823
total 3902

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. 788-789 (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. 797 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c 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. 788-789 (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. 797 (English).