Lorraine Motors Corporation

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Lorraine Motors Corporation
legal form Corporation
founding 1920
resolution 1922
Reason for dissolution Bankrupt
Seat Grand Rapids , Michigan , USA
management David Dunbar Buick
Branch Automobiles

Lorraine Motors Corporation was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded in Grand Rapids , Michigan in 1920 . It took over the factory of the Hackett Motor Car Company and continued their production of automobiles. The brand name was Lorraine .

In 1921 David Dunbar Buick , John J. Larkin and AH Wyatt took over the company. Buick designed a new model. It is questionable whether it went into series production. Production ended in August 1922. Bankruptcy followed in December 1922 . A total of around 200 vehicles were built.

There were no affiliations with the Lorraine Automobile Manufacturing Company and the Lorraine Car Company , which used the same brand name.

vehicles

From 1920 there was the Model 20-A . It had a four-cylinder engine of Herschell-Spillman with L-head and 35 hp power. The chassis had a wheelbase of 290 cm . At first there was only a touring car with five seats in the range. In 1921 a sedan with five seats, a roadster with two seats and a coupé with three seats followed.

The Model 21-T had an engine designed by Buick.

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. 902 (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. 920-921 (English).

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. 902 (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. 920-921 (English).