Sheridan Motor Car Company

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Sheridan Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1920
resolution 1921
Seat Muncie , Indiana , USA
management William Durant
Branch Automobiles

Sheridan Motor Car Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

DA Burke was a manager at Buick , a division of General Motors . He had designed two vehicles in early 1920. William Durant as President of General Motors was pleased with that. He then founded the company based in Muncie , Indiana . There the plant of the dissolved Inter-State Automobile Company was moved. In the same year the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Sheridan .

A little later, Durant had to leave General Motors. In the summer of 1921, General Motors sold both the company and the factory to Durant. Production ended on August 1, 1921. Durant then used the factory for its Durant Motors .

A total of around 800 vehicles were built, two of which still exist.

vehicles

The engines came from Northway Motor and Manufacturing Company , which was also part of General Motors.

The only production model was the 35 HP . Its four-cylinder engine developed 35 hp . A source gives 93.7 mm bore and 133.4 mm stroke , which resulted in 3679 cc displacement . The chassis had a 295 cm wheelbase . There was a choice of roadsters , touring cars , coupes and sedans . The vehicle was intended to fill the gap between Chevrolet and Oakland in the General Motors range .

In addition, a model with an eight-cylinder engine was planned, which was to be classified below Cadillac . The engine was specified with 80 hp. It was a V8 engine with 88.9 mm bore, 114.3 mm stroke and 5676 cm³ displacement. The wheelbase was 335 cm. Only prototypes were made of this .

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. 1346 (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. 1445 (English).

Web links

Commons : Sheridan Motor Car Company  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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. 1346 (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. 1445 (English).
  3. ↑ Glen Woodcock: Time Machines: GM's forgotten Marque ( Memento from April 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (English, accessed May 25, 2019)
  4. ↑ Data of the four-cylinder model (accessed on May 25, 2019)
  5. ↑ Data for the eight-cylinder model (accessed May 25, 2019)