Marvel Model A

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Model A
Production period: 1907-1908
Class : Small car
Body versions : Roadster
Engines: Otto engine :
1.9 liters
(10.4 kW)
Length:
Width:
Height:
Wheelbase : 2134 mm
Empty weight : 590 kg

The Marvel Model A was only in 1907 offered, American Voiturette - small car . The manufacturer was the Marvel Motor Car Company in Detroit ( Michigan ).

description

The vehicle had a wheelbase of 84 inches (2134 mm) and weighed 1,300 lb (approximately 590 kg)

The 14 bhp (10.4 kW) two - cylinder boxer engine of unknown origin was water-cooled according to the thermosiphon principle . The displacement was 113.1 ci (1854 cm³) displacement from 4 inch bore and 4½ inch stroke (101.6 × 114.3 mm). As a two-cylinder, it was classified according to the ALAM rating with 12.8 hp. This also corresponds to the British R.AC. Rating at the time , but says little about the actual engine performance . The vehicle, which is reminiscent of French designs such as the Darracq 15 CV or Luc Court 8 CV , had cardan drive according to one source - which is also indicated by a contemporary illustration - according to another chain drive , and was controlled by a steering wheel . The vehicle had full elliptic leaf springs and artillery wheels measuring 30 × 3 inches. Like many vehicles from that time, it was right-hand drive.

The Marvel Model A was only available as a two-seat runabout and cost US $ 800.

In the first year of production, 325 copies were planned. It is unclear whether so many were actually sold, but after the insolvency of the original manufacturer in the second half of 1907, the Crescent Motor Car Company continued to produce the vehicle in their facilities until 1908.

Remarks

  1. ↑ ALAM = Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers , the first US American standards organization, from around 1904–1912. The benefit is calculated; Cylinder bore ² × number of cylinders; the result is divided by 2.5. The successor organization NACC ( National Automobile Chamber of Commerce ) used the same formula. Around 1920 the SAE-PS prevailed.

literature

  • Beverly Rae Kimes (Ed.), Henry Austin Clark Jr.: Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805-1942. 3. Edition. Krause Publications, Iola WI 1996, ISBN 0-87341-428-4 .
  • GN Georgano (Ed.): Complete Encyclopedia of Motorcars, 1885 to the Present. 2nd Edition. Dutton Press, New York 1973, ISBN 0-525-08351-0 .
  • Robert D. Dluhy: American Automobiles of the Brass Era: Essential Specifications of 4,000+ Gasoline Powered Passenger Cars, 1906-1915, with a Statistical and Historical Overview. Mcfarland & Co, Jefferson NC 2013, ISBN 978-0-7864-7136-2 .
  • Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers : Handbook of Gasoline Automobiles / 1904–1905–1906. Introduction by Clarence P. Hornung. Dover Publications, New York 1969.
  • National Automobile Chamber of Commerce : Handbook of Automobiles 1915–1916. Dover Publications, 1970.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Dluhy: American Automobiles of the Brass Era. 2013, p. 96 (Marvel)
  2. ↑ Kimes, Clark: Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805-1942. 1996, p. 841 (La Petite)
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Kimes, Clark: Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805-1942. 1996, pp. 933-934 (Marvel)
  4. ↑ American Automobiles: The Marvel Automobile & The Marvel Motor Car Co.
  5. ↑ NACC: Handbook of Automobiles 1915–1916. P. 212 (HP Rating)
  6. ↑ American Automobiles: Marvel Runabout, 1907 advert.
  7. ↑ Kimes, Clark: Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805-1942. 1996, p. 389 (Crescent)