Kelsey Motor Company

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Kelsey Motor Company
legal form Company
founding 1920
resolution 1924
Reason for dissolution Bankrupt
Seat Newark , New Jersey , USA
management Cadwallader Washburn Kelsey
Branch Automobiles

Kelsey Motor Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Cadwallader Washburn Kelsey had already experimented with motor vehicles between 1897 and 1902, but did not bring about series production. Then he became a car dealer and sold Maxwell Motor Company vehicles . Between 1910 and 1914 he manufactured Motorette vehicles for the CW Kelsey Manufacturing Company .

In 1920 he founded the new company in Newark , New Jersey . The factory was in Belleville, in the same state. In 1921 the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Kelsey . Production ended in June 1924. The company was driven into bankruptcy .

vehicles

In the beginning, all vehicles had a friction transmission , which over time was considered old-fashioned.

The Model GW from the period 1920 to 1921 had a six-cylinder engine from the Falls Motor Corporation with 46 hp power. The chassis had a 295 cm wheelbase . Superstructures were touring cars and sedans with five seats and runabouts with two seats.

In 1922 the model was given a longer wheelbase of 301 cm. The runabout was omitted. Instead, there was a roadster with three seats and a coupe with four seats. The engine now came from Walker and also made 46 hp. A source also mentions a model with a four-cylinder engine from Gray that had a wheelbase of 284 cm for mid-1922 . At the same time, the wheelbase of the six-cylinder model is also said to have been shortened to 284 cm.

The six-cylinder model was discontinued in 1923. The four-cylinder model kept the friction transmission. There was also a second four-cylinder model with an ordinary gearbox. Lycoming supplied the Lycoming CF engine. This model was more successful. One source mentions the Model G for 1923 , whose four-cylinder engine developed 35 hp, with a 282 cm wheelbase and five-seater superstructures as a Phaeton and sedan . It is not clear whether these were the same model.

In 1924 the model with the friction gear was discontinued. The Model G was still in the range. A taxi was added, possibly as early as the end of 1923.

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1920-1921 Model GW 6th 46 295 5-seater touring car, 5-seater sedan, 2-seater roadster
1922 Model GW 6th 46 301 5-seater touring car, 3-seater roadster, 4-seater coupé, 5-seater sedan
1923-1924 Model G 4th 35 282 Phaeton 5-seater, sedan 5-seater

Source:

Production numbers

A total of 601 vehicles were built.

year Production number
1922 187
1923 203
1924 211
total 601

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. 799-800 (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. 817-818 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h 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. 799-800 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j 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. 817-818 (English).