Liberty Motor Car Company

Liberty Motor Car Company
legal form	Company
founding	1916
resolution	1923
Reason for dissolution	Acquisition by Columbia Motors Company
Seat	Detroit , Michigan , USA
management	Percy Owen
Branch	Automobiles

Liberty Motor Car Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded in Detroit , Michigan in February 1916 . Percy Owen as President, RE Cole as Engineer and HM Wirth as Sales Manager previously worked for Saxon Motor Car Corporation . Vice President was James F. Bourquin, who previously worked for Paige-Detroit Motor Car Company and Chalmers Motor Car Company . Automobile production began in the summer of 1916. The brand name was Liberty . Initially, manufacturing took place in the former RCH Company's Detroit facility . With the sales success, the move to a newer and larger plant became necessary. That is where the financial problems begin. Bankruptcy began in January 1923 . Plans for reorganization failed. In September 1923, Columbia Motors Company took over everything. Some vehicles were still assembled by hand in 1924.

There was no association with the Liberty Motor Company , which used the same brand name in 1914.

vehicles

All vehicles had a six-cylinder engine . Initially, the Continental Motors Company supplied the engines with 3730 cc displacement . From 1921 a separate engine with 3770 cm³ displacement was used.

In 1916 there was the Model 10-A . The engine was specified with 23 hp . The chassis had a 292 cm wheelbase . There was a choice of touring cars with five seats, roadsters with four seats, town cars with five seats and touring limousines with five seats.

In 1917 it became the Model 10-B . Now 25 hp were specified. The wheelbase was lengthened to 312 cm. The town car was omitted. For this purpose, there were coupé with four seats, a roadster coupé and a brougham .

In 1918 the wheelbase was cut back to 292 cm. Five-seat touring cars, two- and four-seat roadsters, five-seat sedans, town cars and landaulets are known .

In 1919 there were again only changes to the bodywork. Touring cars with five seats, roadsters with two seats, sports touring cars with four seats, touring sedans, brougham and coupé were available.

1920 was the last year for this model. There are touring cars with five seats, Sport with four seats, roadsters with two seats, coupé with four seats, sedan with five seats, town car with six seats and landaulet with six seats.

The Model 10-C followed in 1921 . The engine developed 56 hp. The wheelbase was 297 cm. Five-seat touring cars, two-seat roadsters, four-seat speedsters , four-seat coupes and five-seat sedans were listed.

In 1922 a four-seater sport, a special touring car with five seats and a special sport with four seats were added, while the speedster was no longer available.

In 1923 the Model 10-D came on the market. The engine and wheelbase remained unchanged. There was a standard touring car, a Commander Coupé and, with the addition of a Cavalier, a roadster, a four-seater, a five-seat touring car, a coupé and a limousine.

Model overview

year	model	cylinder	Power ( hp )	Wheelbase (cm)	construction
1916	Model 10-A	6th	23	292	5-seater touring car, 4-seater roadster, 5-seater town car, 5-seater touring limousine
1917	Model 10-B	6th	25th	312	4-seater roadster, 5-seater touring car, 4-seater coupé, 5-seater touring sedan, roadster-coupé, Brougham
1918	Model 10-B	6th	25th	292	5-seater touring car, 2-seater and 4-seater roadster, 5-seater sedan, town car, landaulet
1919	Model 10-B	6th	25th	292	5-seater touring car, 2-seater roadster, 4-seater sports touring car, touring sedan, Brougham, coupé
1920	Model 10-B	6th	25th	292	5-seater touring car, 4-seater sports, 2-seater roadster, 4-seater coupé, 5-seater sedan, 6-seater town car, 6-seater landaulet
1921	Model 10-C	6th	56	297	5-seater touring car, 2-seater roadster, 4-seater speedster, 4-seater coupé, 5-seater sedan
1922	Model 10-C	6th	56	297	5-seater touring car, 4-seater sport, 5-seater special touring car, 4-seater special sport, 2-seater roadster, 4-seater coupé, 5-seater sedan
1923	Model 10-D	6th	56	297	Standard touring car, Cavalier Roadster, Cavalier 4-seater, Cavalier touring car 5-seater, Commander Coupé, Cavalier Coupé, Cavalier Limousine

Production numbers

year	Production number
1916	733
1917	3,627
1918	4,217
1919	6.123
1920	9.224
1921	11,217
1922	1,654
1923	167
total	36,962

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. 864-865 (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. 899 (English).

Web links

Commons : Liberty Motor Car Company  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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. 864-865 (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. 899 (English).