Northwestern Motorcycle Works

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Northwestern Motorcycle Works
legal form
founding 1914
resolution 1914
Seat Chicago , Illinois , USA
Branch Automobiles

Northwestern Motorcycle Works was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The Chicago , Illinois company manufactured a few automobiles in 1914. The brand name was Logan . It is not known whether the company also manufactured motorcycles , and whether it existed before 1914 or after 1914.

There was no association with the Logan Construction Company , which used the same brand name a few years earlier.

vehicles

The only car model is called a cycle car. However, it did not meet the criteria. It had an air-cooled V2 engine from Spacke . 88.9 mm bore and 93.218 mm stroke resulted in a displacement of 1157 cc . The engine was specified with 9/13 hp and made 9 hp . The engine power was transmitted to the rear axle via a friction gear and belt.

The chassis had a wheelbase of 259 cm and a track width of 102 cm . The structure was an open roadster with space for two people side by side. The vehicle weighed about 227 kg. The original price was 375 US dollars .

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. 898 (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. 917 (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. 898 (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. 917 (English).