Victor Motor Car Company

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Victor Automobile Manufacturing Company
Victor Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1905
resolution 1911
Reason for dissolution Death of the owner
Seat St. Louis , Missouri , USA
management Joseph F. Harrington
Branch Automobiles

Victor Motor Car Company , previously Victor Automobile Manufacturing Company , was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Joseph F. Harrington founded the Victor Automobile Manufacturing Company in St. Louis , Missouri in 1905 . He started with the production of automobiles. The brand name was Victor . In 1910 the name was changed to Victor Motor Car Company . Production ended in 1911 after the owner's death in May.

Other American manufacturers of passenger cars of this brand were Overman Automobile Company , Victor Motor Company and Richmond Cyclecar Manufacturing Company .

vehicles

The first models were highwheelers . With their big wheels, they were well suited for the bad roads of the time. From 1905 to 1907 there was the motor buggy with a structure of the same name. He had a single cylinder - two-stroke engine and water cooling . The engine developed 6 hp . It drove the rear axle via a friction gear .

In 1908 this model was named Junior .

Between 1908 and 1910 all cars had a two-cylinder engine with air cooling . It was specified with 14/20 hp. Model C and Model D had a chassis with a 213 cm wheelbase and a body as a runabout . In Model E as an open touring car , model G as a touring car and Pullman and Model H as a light vans was the wheelbase 239 cm. Model D and Model G had pneumatic tires, the others still had solid rubber tires .

In 1911 Model C and Model D got a longer wheelbase of 262 cm. The model 4-40 was new . It was built lower and not a high wheeler. The vehicles were driven by a four-cylinder engine with 40 hp. The wheelbase was 284 cm. Are called Vestibule touring cars, Runabout and normal touring cars.

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1905-1907 Motor buggy 1 6th Motor buggy
1908 Junior 1 6th Motor buggy
1908-1910 Model C 2 14/20 213 Runabout
1908-1910 Model D 2 14/20 213 Runabout
1908-1910 Model E. 2 14/20 239 Touring car
1908-1910 Model G 2 14/20 239 Touring car, Pullman
1908-1910 Model H 2 14/20 239 lighter delivery truck
1911 Model C 2 14/20 262 Runabout
1911 Model D 2 14/20 262 Runabout
1911 Model 4-40 4th 40 284 Vestibule touring cars, runabouts, touring cars

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. 1500-1501 (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. 1677 (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. 1500-1501 (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. 1677 (English).