Piedmont Motor Car Company

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Piedmont Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1917
resolution 1922
Seat Lynchburg , Virginia , USA
Branch Automobiles

Piedmont Motor Car Company was an American automobile manufacturer . The brand name was Piedmont .

description

The company was founded in 1917 in Lynchburg (Virginia) under WA Taylor . Initially, two models were screwed together there, the 4-30 and the 6-40 . The touring car bodies came from the Norwalk Motor Car Company in Martinsburg, West Virginia and were strikingly similar to contemporary Hudson cars . The engine of the 4-30, a four-cylinder in-line engine, came from Lycoming , that of the 6-40, a six-cylinder in-line engine, came from Continental . From 1919 onwards, at least the bodies were made in-house. Both models, which looked very similar, were usually painted green.

In the years 1917–1919, around 500 cars were built each year, with only some of the vehicles being in-house models. In addition, similar vehicles were built for other manufacturers, for example Bush and Marshall in Chicago or Lone Star in Texas . Only from 1920 onwards was there a modest amount of advertising for the products manufactured under its own name. The success left much to be desired; after all, the police in Lynchburg could at least be equipped with Piedmont vehicles.

The company received more and more orders for the production of third-party products from other automobile manufacturers. The production of own models now took a back seat and a failed purchasing policy finally led to bankruptcy in October 1922. The store had accumulated parts worth an impressive $ 225,000. A re-establishment as Virginia Motors, Inc. failed in 1923.

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

Models

model Construction period Engine manufacturer cylinder power wheelbase
4-30 1917-1922 Lycoming 4 row 30 HP (22 kW) 2946 mm
6-40 1917-1922 Continental 6 row 42 hp (30 kW) 3099 mm

Production numbers

year Production number
1917 61
1918 217
1919 615
1920 923
1921 527
1922 127
total 2470

Source:

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. 1177-1178 (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. 1177-1178 (English).