Viking Company

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Viking Company
legal form Company
founding 1907
resolution 1908
Seat Boston , Massachusetts , USA
management Arthur R. Bangs
Branch Automobiles

Viking Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Arthur R. Bangs sold HH Franklin Manufacturing Company vehicles in New England . In the summer of 1907 he founded the separate company for vehicle production. The seat was also in Boston , Massachusetts . The production of automobiles began. The brand name was Viking . In early 1908 he presented vehicles at the Boston Automobile Show . Production came to a standstill at the end of 1908. In total, only a few vehicles were built.

There was no connection to the Viking car brand from 1929 to 1930.

vehicles

In contrast to Franklin's cars with their air-cooled engines, Bangs used water cooling . They were four-cylinder engines from the Rutenber Motor Company . They made 40 hp . The engine power was transmitted to the rear axle via a cardan shaft . The chassis had a wheelbase of 320 cm . The only body shape offered was an open touring car with seven seats. The original price was 2500 US dollars .

Another source mentions a wheelbase of only 305 cm for 1907 and 320 cm for the last year of production. Accordingly, the engine had 114.3 mm bore and 127 mm stroke , so 5212 cm³ displacement .

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. 1502 (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. 1679 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 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. 1502 (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. 1679 (English).
  3. ^ Robert D. Dluhy: American Automobiles of the Brass Era. Essential Specifications of 4,000+ Gasoline Powered Passenger Cars, 1906-1915, with a Statistical and Historical Overview. McFarland & Company, Jefferson NC 2013, ISBN 978-0-7864-7136-2 , p. 126.