Motorette Corporation

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The Motorette Corporation was an American automobile manufacturer based in Buffalo, New York from 1946 to 1948 .

vehicles

The motorette was an open roadster with two seats and three wheels. The scooter-like vehicle had a single front wheel controlled by a steering wheel, but no doors and no roof. A rear-mounted, air-cooled single-cylinder engine from Wisconsin , which had 293 cm³ displacement and generated 4.1 bhp (3.0 kW), was used for the drive . The engine power was transmitted to the left rear wheel via an automatic two-speed gearbox and a chain. The wheelbase was 1524 mm, the total length 2286 mm. The vehicle weighed 190 kg and cost US $ 495.

The motorette was also available as a load version under the name of truckette .

From autumn 1946 to autumn 1948, over 4,000 examples of Motorette and Truckette were made. Then the company had to file for bankruptcy.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Motorette (IV).
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 2: G – O. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 1083. (English)
  • John Gunnell: Standard Catalog of American Cars 1946-1975 . Krause Publications, Inc. Iola, Wisconsin (2002). ISBN 0-87349-461-X