Mohawk Motor Company

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The Mohawk Motor Company was a short-lived American manufacturer of light automobiles in Boston ( Massachusetts ). The vehicles were sold as Mohawk . Due to their construction (but not their weight) they are classified as cycle cars in the USA .

description

The company was founded in 1914 and had to file for bankruptcy the following year; one of the numerous victims of the "cycle car boom" of those years, which ended abruptly with the appearance of affordable, full-fledged automobiles such as the Ford Model T and the Chevrolet 490 .

The Mohawk was the only model from this supplier and only available in one version. Other features of a vehicle in this category are also unusual for a cycle car from the USA: With a wheelbase of 2540 mm (100 inches), it was larger than most cycle cars , it had its two seats next to each other and not one behind the other, and the rear axle was with a cardan shaft instead of the usual chain on one of the rear wheels and the differential got by without gears .

The Mohawk had a four-cylinder , OHV valve timing engine purchased from Farmer , "semi-floating" thru axles at the rear , track was 1112 mm (44 inches), and the vehicle weighed about 450 kg (1000 lbs). At US $ 450 it sold very poorly, which was probably due to the fact that a Ford Model T 1914 was available from US $ 500 ( runabout , two-seater); the five-seat touring car cost only US $ 50 more and the prices even fell by US $ 10 each in the following year.

literature

  • Kimes, Beverly Rae (Eds.) And Clark, Henry Austin, Jr.: Standard Catalog of American Cars . 2nd edition (1985), Krause Publications, Iola WI 54990, ISBN 0-87341-111-0 , pp. 1215-1216 (English)
  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  • Nick Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile, Volume 2 G – O. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Kimes (1985), p. 944
  2. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  3. ^ A b Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
  4. ↑ Kimes (1985), pp. 554-555