Moore Motor Vehicle Company

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Moore Motor Vehicle Company
legal form Company
founding 1916
resolution 1920
Reason for dissolution insolvency
Seat Danville , Illinois , USA
management EK Gallagher
Branch Automobiles

Moore Motor Vehicle Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Moore Motor Vehicle Company share dated August 31, 1917

George L. Moore was car dealer for Ford in Minneapolis in Minnesota . In 1916 he founded the automobile production company in the same city. He became President and AC Leonard Vice President. The brand name was Moore . Louis Disbrow became chief engineer in January 1918, but left the company soon after.

In 1919 the headquarters were relocated to Danville , Illinois . In August 1919, Moore and Leonard resigned and were replaced by EK Gallagher and JH Vickers.

Production ended in 1920. Plans to work with the Marwin Motor Truck Company failed. The company went bankrupt . The remains were auctioned in December 1920. A total of over 1000 vehicles were built.

Other US manufacturers of Moore- branded passenger cars included Moore Automobile Company and Moore Car Corporation of America .

vehicles

Only Model 30 was on offer . It had a four-cylinder engine of GB & S . It made 30 hp . The chassis had a wheelbase of 269 ​​cm .

A touring car with five seats was available during the entire construction period. In 1919 there was also a five-seater sports model .

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1916-1918 Model 30 4th 30th 269 5-seater touring car
1919 Model 30 4th 30th 269 Touring car 5-seater, Sport Model 5-seater
1920 Model 30 4th 30th 269 5-seater touring car

Production numbers

year Production number
1916 136
1917 234
1918 330
1919 386
1920 100
total 1186

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. 999 (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. 999 (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).