Nyberg Automobile Works

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Nyberg Automobile Works
legal form
founding 1911
resolution 1914
Reason for dissolution insolvency
Seat Anderson , Indiana , USA
management Henry Nyberg
Number of employees 70
Branch Automobiles
Status: 1912

Nyberg Automobile Works was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Henry Nyberg had already gained experience in automobile construction with his Nyberg-Waller Automobile Company . He founded the new company in Anderson , Indiana in 1911 . He bought the Rider-Lewis Motor Car Company plant in February 1911 and began producing automobiles. The brand name was Nyberg . In 1912, 70 people were employed in Anderson. An additional plant in Chattanooga , Tennessee was also put into operation. Everything went well until September 1913. Then the underfunding of the company caused the bankruptcy to begin .

In February 1914 the company was sold to AC Barley by the Barley Manufacturing Company . Madison Motors Corporation later acquired the plant.

vehicles

In 1911 there was only the Model 35 . Its four-cylinder engine was specified with 35/40 hp . The chassis had a 295 cm wheelbase . The only structure was a touring car with five seats.

In 1912 this model remained unchanged. The Model 42 was added. It had the same engine, 320 cm wheelbase and was bodied as a seven-seater touring car. The Sixty also appeared . Its six-cylinder engine developed 60 hp. The wheelbase was 345 cm. Touring cars with five and seven seats and a roadster were available .

In 1913 there were three similar four-cylinder models in the range. The Model 4-37 had a 37 hp engine, 300 cm wheelbase and bodies as a two-seater roadster and five-seater touring car. The only difference between the Model 4-40 was the 40 HP engine. The Model 4-42 had the engine with 40 hp, but a longer wheelbase of 325 cm, which made it possible to set up a four-seater Tourabout . There were also two six-cylinder models in four versions. In the Six-45 the engine made 45 HP and in the Six-60 60 HP. The weaker model was available with wheelbases of 320 and 345 cm. The stronger model had a wheelbase two inches (5.08 cm) longer. Roadsters with two seats, Tourabout with four seats and touring cars with five seats were built on the short chassis. The longer chassis were withheld from the seven-seaters, which were available as touring cars and limousines .

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1911 Model 35 4th 35/40 295 5-seater touring car
1912 Model 35 4th 35/40 295 5-seater touring car
1912 Model 42 4th 35/40 320 5-seater touring car
1912 Sixty 6th 60 345 5-seater and 7-seater touring cars, roadsters
1913 Model 4-37 4th 37 300 Roadster 2-seater, touring car 5-seater
1913 Model 4-40 4th 40 300 Roadster 2-seater, touring car 5-seater
1913 Model 4-42 4th 40 325 Tourabout 4-seater
1913 Six-45 6th 45 320 Roadster 2-seater, Tourabout 4th-seater, touring car 5-seater
1913 Six-45 6th 45 345 7-seater touring car, 7-seater sedan
1913 Six-60 6th 60 325 Roadster 2-seater, Tourabout 4th-seater, touring car 5-seater
1913 Six-60 6th 60 351 7-seater touring car, 7-seater sedan

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. 1049 (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. 1129 (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. 1049 (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. 1129 (English).