Speedwell Motor Car Company

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Company advertisement in the Syracuse Post standard, 1910

The Speedwell Motor Car Company was an American automobile manufacturer based in Dayton, Ohio .

history

1911 Speedwell Model F Special

The company was founded by Pierce Davies Schenck in 1907 and manufactured automobiles that were very popular in the Dayton area until 1914. In 1911, Speedwell built an enclosed, two-door, two-seater that she called the Sedan ; this was the first known use of this type designation.

From February to November 1910, the company leased part of its production facility to the Wright Company , founded in 1909 by the Wright brothers , who built their aircraft there until their own factory facilities in Dayton were completed .

The severe flooding of the city by the Great Miami River in March 1913 ( Great Dayton Flood ) caused considerable damage to the factory premises and loss of inventory. The company could not recover from this and in 1915 it went bankrupt .

The factory premises were later used by the automotive supplier ACDelco . Nothing remains of the buildings of the former Speedwell factory.

literature

  • Curt Dalton, Roger L. Miller, Michael M. Self, and Ben F. Thompson: Miami Valley's Marvelous Motor Cars: From the Apple-Eight to the Xenia Cyclecar, 1886-1960 . 2007
  • David Burgess Wise: The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Automobiles . Chartwell Books, Edison, New Jersey, 2000, ISBN 0-7858-1106-0
  • George Nick Georgano : Cars: Early and Vintage, 1886-1930 . Grange-Universal, London, 1985

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ GN Georgano: Cars: Early and Vintage, 1886-1930 . (London: Grange-Universal, 1985)
  2. ^ Mary Ann Johnson: Field Guide to Flight: On the Aviation Trail in Dayton Ohio. Landfall Press, Dayton, Ohio, 1996, ISBN 0-91342-858-2