Midwest Motor Company

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Midwest Motor Company
legal form Company
founding 1917
resolution 1922
Seat Kansas City , Missouri , USA
Branch Automobiles

Midwest Motor Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

BP Bagby had already gained experience in the automotive industry with the Ben Hur Motor Company . He founded the company in 1917 in Kansas City , Missouri . He introduced the same year a prototype ago, the Kay Lake was called. The First World War prevented series production. Bagby ran out of money. He left the company.

In 1919, RL Cleveland, PM Crone, JA Fullerton and EJ Short were the new owners. Some parts for the machine park were taken over by the Frankfort Motor Company from Indiana . Its president RE Stevenson and OC White, who previously ran the Princess Motor Car Company , also joined the company. In March 1919, the first vehicle was presented at the Kansas City Automobile Show . The brand name was Highlander . Production ended in 1922. A total of around 25 to 30 vehicles were built.

vehicles

Many parts were bought in from suppliers. So the six-cylinder engine came from the Continental Motors Company . It made 55 hp . A short chassis with a 305 cm wheelbase was offered with a body as a roadster . There were also two touring cars with either five or seven seats. They had a wheelbase of 318 cm.

A planned model with a four-cylinder engine no longer went into production.

Model overview

year brand model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1917 Kay lake
1919-1922 Highlander Six 6th 55 305 Roadster
1919-1922 Highlander Six 6th 55 318 5-seater and 7-seater touring cars

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. 703 and p. 796 (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. 690 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d 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. 796 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c d 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. 703 (English).
  3. ↑ a b 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. 690 (English).