Kenworthy Motors Corporation

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Kenworthy Motors Corporation
legal form Corporation
founding 1919
resolution 1921
Reason for dissolution Bankrupt
Seat Mishawaka , Indiana , USA
management Cloyd Y. Kenworthy
Branch Automobiles

Kenworthy Motors Corporation was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Kenworthy 8-90 Touring (1921)

Cloyd Y. Kenworthy resigned from his position as Vice President of the Barley Motor Car Company in November 1919 . In the same month he started his own company. The seat was in Mishawaka , Indiana . The initial capital was 400,000 dollars . Harry McDonald Jr., LB Phillips and SC Wood joined the company as early as January 1920. The capital was increased to $ 6 million. In the same month the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Kenworthy . The designer was Karl H. Martin, who also headed the Martin-Wasp Corporation . At the Chicago Auto Show in January 1920, the company received 138 orders for vehicles. In March 1921 there was an attempt to reorganize. Bankruptcy followed in August 1921 .

143 vehicles were built in 1920 and 71 in the following year. That’s a total of 214 vehicles. Two vehicles still exist. One is on display in the Nethercutt Collection .

vehicles

There were three models on offer with different engines. The chassis each had a wheelbase of 330 cm . The bodies were open touring cars with five seats.

The Model 4-80 had a four-cylinder engine of the type Rochester-Duesenberg . It was specified with 80 hp . The 101.6 mm bore , 152.4 mm stroke and 4942 cm³ displacement are recorded . The transmission had four gears. The original price was $ 5,000.

The Model 6-55 had a six-cylinder engine from the Continental Motors Company with 55 hp. 88.9 mm bore and 133.35 mm stroke resulted in a displacement of 4966 cc. The car had a three-speed transmission and cost $ 3900.

The top model was the Model 8-90 , also called Line-O-Eight , which according to a source did not appear until 1921. It had a self-made eight-cylinder in - line engine . The bore was 76.2 mm, the stroke 133.35 mm and the displacement 4865 cm³. The engine output was specified with 90 hp. The use of four-wheel brakes was unusual. One source names a touring car with seven seats. The original price was $ 5,550.

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1920-1921 Model 4-80 4th 80 330 5-seater touring car
1920-1921 Model 6-55 6th 55 330 5-seater touring car
1920-1921 Model 8-90 8th 90 330 5-seater touring car

Source:

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. 803 (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. 819 (English).

Web links

Commons : Kenworthy Motors Corporation  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

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. 803 (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. 819 (English).
  3. ↑ a b c Automobile Quarterly Volume 42, Issue 4.
  4. ↑ Engine data for the four-cylinder model (accessed on May 18, 2019)
  5. ↑ American Automobiles (accessed May 18, 2019)
  6. ↑ a b data for the Model 8-90 (English, accessed on May 18, 2019)