Mora Motor Car Company

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Mora Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1906
resolution 1911
Reason for dissolution Bankrupt
Seat Newark , New York , USA
management Sam H. Mora
Branch Automobiles

Mora Motor Car Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Sam H. Mora founded the company in Newark , New York State , in 1906 . Wiliam H. Birdsall was the designer. They started producing automobiles in the same year. The brand name was Mora .

In July 1910 financial problems became known. Production ended in 1911. That year it went bankrupt . Everything was sold on November 15, 1911. This included 50 finished vehicles. A total of around 100 vehicles per type are said to have been manufactured per year.

Sam H. Mora also ran the Omar Motor Company and later founded the Mora Power Wagon Company for commercial vehicle production.

vehicles

From 1906 to 1907 there was only the 24 HP . The four-cylinder engine developed 24 hp . The chassis was available with two different wheelbases . The two-seat roadster and the four-seat Surrey had a wheelbase of 249 cm. The wheelbase of the five-seat touring car and the two-seat Racytype Roadster was 262 cm.

In 1908 the 24 HP was only available with a 262 cm wheelbase as a touring car with four seats and as a Racytype with three seats. The 42/50 HP was new . It had a six-cylinder engine that was specified with 42/50 hp. The wheelbase was 292 cm. The touring car had five seats , the Racytype three seats .

In 1909 the small model became the 24/28 HP . The wheelbase has been extended to 279 cm. Now there was a roadster with four seats, the Racytype roadster with three and four seats and sedans with five and seven seats. The 42/50 HP offered with the known structures of the previous year wheelbase than five-seater touring car, dreisitziger Roadster as well as five- and seven-seater sedans. A Racytype Roadster only had a 267 cm wheelbase. The top model was the 60 HP , also known as the Large Four . The four-cylinder engine developed 60 hp. The wheelbase was 315 cm. Touring cars with seven seats and Racytype roadsters with three and four seats have survived .

From 1910 to 1911, the Model 20 was the smallest model on the market. Its four-cylinder engine developed 20 hp. The wheelbase of 213 cm enabled it to be built as a two-seater roadster. There was also a 40 HP , also known as the Light Four . It had a 40 hp engine and 284 cm wheelbase. It was available as a touring car with five and seven seats, roadster with two seats, sedan with five and seven seats and racytype roadster .

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1906-1907 24 HP 4th 24 249 Roadster 2-seater, Surrey 4-seater
1906-1907 24 HP 4th 24 262 5-seater touring car, 2-seater Racytype Roadster
1908 24 HP 4th 24 262 Touring car 4-seater, Racytype 3-seater
1908 42/50 HP 6th 42/50 292 Touring car 5-seater, Racytype 3-seater
1909 24/28 HP 4th 24/28 279 Roadster 4-seat, Racytype Roadster 3-seat and 4-seat, sedan 5-seat and 7-seat
1909 42/50 HP 6th 42/50 267 Racytype Roadster
1909 42/50 HP 6th 42/50 292 5-seater touring car, 3-seater roadster, 5-seater and 7-seater sedan
1909 60 HP 4th 60 315 7-seater touring car, 3-seater and 4-seater Racytype Roadster
1910-1911 Model 20 4th 20th 213 Roadster 2-seater
1910-1911 40 HP 4th 40 284 5-seater and 7-seater touring car, 2-seater roadster, 5-seater and 7-seater sedan, Racytype Roadster

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. 1000-1001 (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. 1000-1001 (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).