Kurtz Motor Car Company

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Kurtz Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1920
resolution 1925
Seat Cleveland , Ohio , USA
management Cyrus B. Kurtz
Branch Automobiles

Kurtz Motor Car Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Cyrus B. Kurtz had developed a preselector . In the summer of 1920 he founded the vehicle production company. The seat was in Cleveland , Ohio . Production began in the same year. The brand name was Kurtz Automatic . In 1922 the plans amounted to 600 vehicles. Vehicle production ended in 1925.

The selection was bought by the Apperson Brothers Automobile Company and Haynes Automobile Company .

vehicles

Most of the vehicles had a six-cylinder engine of Herschell-Spillman . The Model A was available from 1920 to 1922 . Here the engine made 55 hp . The chassis had a wheelbase of 310 cm . There was a choice of touring cars with five seats, roadsters with two seats, coupé with three seats, a sporty sedan with four seats and another sedan with five seats.

The Model 65 followed in 1923 . The engine output was now given as 75 hp. The wheelbase was still 310 cm. Touring cars with five and seven seats, roadsters with two seats, brougham with four seats and sedans with five seats have been handed down.

In 1924 only the superstructure changed. The five-seat touring car and the two-seat roadster were taken over. New were a two- and a four-door sedan with five seats and another sedan with seven seats.

A new model was announced for 1925, but only three of them were made. An eight-cylinder engine from Lycoming powered vehicles. The wheelbase was 353 cm. The four-wheel brakes were new.

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1920-1922 Model A 6th 55 310 5-seater touring car, 2-seater roadster, 3-seater coupé, 4-seater sports saloon, 5-seater saloon
1923 Model 65 6th 75 310 5-seater and 7-seater touring car, 2-seater roadster, 4-seater Brougham, 5-seater sedan
1924 Model 65 6th 75 310 5-seater touring car, 2-seater roadster, 5-seater and 7-seater sedan

Production numbers

A total of 678 vehicles were built.

year Production number
1921 127
1922 167
1923 183
1924 198
1925 3
total 678

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. 832 (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. 840 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 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. 832 (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. 840 (English).