Moore Car Corporation of America

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Moore Car Corporation of America
legal form Corporation
founding 1917
resolution 1917
Seat Indianapolis , Indiana , USA
management Moore flat share
Branch Automobiles

Moore Car Corporation of America was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

WG Moore founded the company in Indianapolis , Indiana in 1917 . According to his own statements, he had already gained experience in automobile construction with Ransomware Eli Olds since the turn of the century . He became President, IE Wemple Vice President, FD Hill Secretary, and BG Hewitt Treasurer. They started producing automobiles in the same year. The brand name was Moore , occasionally Moore-Car . Production ended in 1917. In total, only a few vehicles were built.

Other US manufacturers of passenger cars of the brand Moore were Moore Automobile Company and Moore Motor Vehicle Company .

vehicles

The only model was a single lane car . The vehicle had two big wheels like a motorcycle . On either side of the rear wheel there were two small support wheels that were extended and retracted at the push of a button. The two-cylinder engine came from Sinclair . It made 22 hp and drove the rear wheel via a three-speed gearbox and a cardan shaft . The maximum speed should be 144 km / h. The advertising highlighted how easy the vehicle was to drive.

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. 1000 (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. 1062 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 1000 (English).
  2. ↑ 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. 1062 (English).