Pilgrim Motor Car Company

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Pilgrim Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1914
resolution 1918
Seat Detroit , Michigan , USA
management Clarence H. Leete
Branch Automobiles

Pilgrim Motor Car Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

William Radford had a background in automotive engineering with Oldsmobile , Warren Motor Car Company , Hudson Motor Car Co. , Detroit-Oxford Manufacturing Company, and Fostoria Motor Car Company . He founded the company in Detroit , Michigan in 1914 . Clarence H. Leete became president. In February 1915, the series production of automobiles was to begin and come onto the market as the Pilgrim . This did not happen for the time being, or only to a small extent. In May 1915, Leete was charged with fraud. Radford left the company. In September 1916, Leete sued Radford. RC Aland of the Aland Motor Car Company was hired as a designer in 1916. He revised the models.

Possibly there was a reorganization in Portland , Maine afterwards . Maine had relatively loose regulations and laws for businesses back then, they say.

Production ended in 1918. In total, only a few vehicles were built.

Other manufacturers of passenger cars of the brand Pilgrim were Pilgrim Motor Vehicle Company and Ohio Falls Motor Car Company from the USA and Pilgrim's Way Motor and Pilgrim Cars from the United Kingdom .

vehicles

In 1915 there was the 17 HP . It had a water-cooled four - cylinder engine . A bore of 82.55 mm and a stroke of 107.95 mm resulted in a displacement of 2311 cc and an output of 17 hp . The chassis had a wheelbase of 269 ​​cm . There was a choice of a touring car with five seats, a roadster with two seats and a convertible with three seats.

The revised Model 37 appeared in 1916 . The engine was now specified with 22.5 hp. The wheelbase was lengthened to 284 cm. The only structure was a five-seater touring car.

There were no changes in 1917.

In 1918 the wheelbase was extended to 290 cm.

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1915 17 HP 4th 17th 269 5-seater touring car, 2-seater roadster, 3-seater convertible
1916-1917 Model 37 4th 22.5 284 5-seater touring car
1918 Model 37 4th 22.5 290 5-seater touring car

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. 1191 (English).
  • George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1232 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d 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. 1191 (English).
  2. ↑ George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1232 (English).