Midland Motor Company

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Midland Motor Company
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
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
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

Commons : Midland Motor Company  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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).
  2. ↑ Advertisement (in English, accessed on October 20, 2018)
  3. ↑ Advertisement 1910 (English, accessed on October 20, 2018)
  4. ↑ 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).