Midland Motor Company
Midland Motor Company | |
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legal form | Company |
founding | 1908 |
resolution | 1914 |
Reason for dissolution | Bankrupt |
Seat | Moline , Illinois , USA |
Branch | Automobiles |
Midland Motor Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles . Two advertisements confirm this company name. Another source uses the name Midland Motor Car Company .
Company history
The company was founded in Moline , Illinois in 1908 . It was a reorganization of the Deere-Clark Motor Car Company . Charles H. Pope was president. In the same year the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Midland . In 1911 Pope withdrew. Production ended in 1913. Bankruptcy began in the same year . In March 1914 the company was dissolved.
There was no connection with Midland Machine Works of Muskogee , Oklahoma , which offered passenger cars under the same brand name around the same time .
vehicles
In 1908 there was only the Model G-9 . The four-cylinder engine was specified with 30/35 hp . The chassis had a 300 cm wheelbase . The choice was between touring cars of five and seven seats.
In 1909 this model remained unchanged. Added to this was the Model E . The four-cylinder engine was specified with 25/30 hp. The wheelbase was 284 cm. Are Narrated Roadster with four seats and touring car with five seats.
In 1910 the Model K was the larger of two models. The engine developed 50 hp. The 305 cm wheelbase made it possible to assemble as a five- and seven-seater touring car. The Model L had a 40 hp engine and 292 cm wheelbase. Touring cars with five seats, roadsters with four seats and tonneau with four seats were available.
In 1911 the wheelbase of the Model K was shortened to 300 cm. The smaller model was now called Model L-1 . The previous tonneau became a toy tonneau . A five-seat touring car with front doors completed the range of bodies.
In 1912 it was renamed the Model L-111 . Now touring cars, Toy Tonneau, Roadster and a Colonial Coupé are mentioned. The Model R had the same engine, but a 300 cm wheelbase and a five-seater touring car body. Model O was also new . It had a six-cylinder engine with 46 hp. The wheelbase was also 300 cm. The only known body shape was a two-seater roadster.
In 1913 the model T-4 was the smaller and weaker model. The four-cylinder engine developed 40 hp. The wheelbase was 310 cm. There were touring cars with five seats, roadsters with two and three seats, speedsters with two seats and a coupé with two seats. The Model T-6 had a six-cylinder engine with 50 hp. The wheelbase was 340 cm. Touring cars with five and seven seats, roadsters with two seats and a Napoleon coach with five seats have been handed down.
Model overview
year | model | cylinder | Power ( hp ) | Wheelbase (cm) | construction |
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1908 | Model G-9 | 4th | 30/35 | 300 | 5-seater and 7-seater touring cars |
1909 | Model E. | 4th | 25/30 | 284 | Roadster 4-seater, touring car 5-seater |
1909 | Model G-9 | 4th | 30/35 | 300 | 5-seater and 7-seater touring cars |
1910 | Model K | 4th | 50 | 305 | 5-seater and 7-seater touring cars |
1910 | Model L | 4th | 40 | 292 | 5-seater touring car, 4-seater roadster, 4-seater tonneau |
1911 | Model K | 4th | 50 | 300 | 5-seater and 7-seater touring cars |
1911 | Model L-1 | 4th | 40 | 292 | 5-seater touring car, 4-seater roadster, 4-seater toy tonneau, 5-seater fore-door touring car |
1912 | Model L-111 | 4th | 40 | 292 | Touring car, toy tonneau, roadster, colonial coupe |
1912 | Model O | 6th | 46 | 300 | Roadster 2-seater |
1912 | Model R | 4th | 40 | 300 | 5-seater touring car |
1913 | Model T-4 | 4th | 40 | 310 | 5-seater touring car, 2-seater and 3-seater roadster, 2-seater Speedster, 2-seater coupé |
1913 | Model T-6 | 6th | 50 | 340 | 5-seater and 7-seater touring car, 2-seater roadster, 5-seater Napoleon Coach |
Production numbers
A total of almost 3000 vehicles were built.
year | Production number |
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1908 | 200 |
1909 | 300 |
1910 | 527 |
1911 | 643 |
1912 | 613 |
1913 | 671 |
total | 2954 |
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. 972-973 (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. 1034 (English).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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. 1034 (English).
- ↑ Advertisement (in English, accessed on October 20, 2018)
- ↑ Advertisement 1910 (English, accessed on October 20, 2018)
- ↑ 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. 972-973 (English).