Twombly Car

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Twombly Cyclecar (1914)

The Twombly Car Corporation was an American automobile manufacturer in New York City . From 1913 to 1915 cyclecars and small cars were sold there under the name Twombly . The company was founded by Willard I. Twombly , who had tried twice before to build cars in New York. His companies were each closed again after less than a year.

description

Initially, the cars were built by Driggs-Seabury in Sharon (Pennsylvania) , and from 1915 in the company's own plant in New York City. They had water-cooled engines, initially with two and from 1914 also with four cylinders. The Twombly was equipped with an underslung frame and had two seats one behind the other. The two-cylinder model with friction disc transmission and double chain drive to the rear wheels, offered in 1913, cost US $ 350. In the following year there was a four-cylinder with a slightly larger wheelbase for 395 US $.

In 1915, Twombly tried ordinary automobiles with four seats. The four-cylinder engine was more powerful and there was now a two-seater runabout (with seats next to each other!), A four-seater touring car and a taxi. The company was unsuccessful because the cars were selling so badly that the financier, a former pastor named Dr. Stuart Dodge , without consulting Twombly, filed for bankruptcy in February 1915.

Today there are only a few examples of Twombly vehicles left.

Models

model Construction period cylinder Bore
mm		 Stroke
mm		 Cubic capacity
cm³		 power wheelbase Superstructures
Cyclecar 1913 2 row 82.550 88.9 952 07 bhp (5.1 kW) 2489 mm Tandem roadster 2 seats
Cyclecar 1914 4 row 63.500 101.6 1287 10 bhp (7.4 kW) 2540 mm Tandem roadster 2 seats
Light car 1915 4 row 79.375 101.6 2011 16 bhp (11.8 kW) 2540 mm Runabout 2 seats, touring car 4 seats, taxi 4 seats

literature

  • Beverly Ray Kimes, Henry Austin Clark Jr .: Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805-1942. Krause Publications, Iola 1985, ISBN 0-87341-045-9 . (English)

Web links

Commons : Twombly Car  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805-1942
  2. ↑ Twombley Cos. Bankrupt , The New York Times (see article 4). February 7, 1915. Retrieved August 4, 2015.