Vim Motor Truck Company

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Touraine Company
Vim Motor Truck Company
legal form Company
founding 1912
resolution 1923
Seat Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , USA
management Harold B. Larzelere
Branch Motor vehicles

Vim Motor Truck Company , previously Touraine Company , was an American manufacturer of motor vehicles . A source names the Touraine Motor Company as the first company name, but this is refuted by an advertisement.

Company history

The company was founded in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania in 1912 . The Nance Motor Car Company is the predecessor company . Harold B. Larzelere managed both companies. The financier was an investor named Touraine. In the same year the production of passenger cars began . The brand name was Touraine .

In 1913 commercial vehicles were added, which were marketed as Vim . In 1914 there was a small car of the same name that apparently remained a prototype .

In 1915 the name was changed to Vim Motor Truck Company .

Car production ended in 1916. Trucks were built until 1923.

vehicles

Touraine brand cars

All vehicles had a six-cylinder engine . In 1912 the only model was specified with 35/40 hp . The chassis had a wheelbase of 315 cm . There was a choice of open touring cars with five seats and a runabout with two seats.

In 1913 there were two models. For the shorter one, the engine was specified with 40/50 hp. The wheelbase was 315 cm. There are touring cars with five seats, a roadster with three seats, Victoria and limousine . There was also the 45/50 HP . Its wheelbase was 340 cm. It was available as a touring car with seven seats and as a Phaeton with five seats.

In 1914 the shorter model was on the lists as a raceabout , runabout and coupé , each with two seats. The longer model is said to have had the same 40/50 hp engine. Sedans, touring cars with four, five and seven seats, Victoria with seven seats, Brougham and a town landaulet were available.

In 1915 the shorter model was only available as a two-seater runabout. The longer model was now again specified with 45/50 hp. Touring cars and limousines with seven seats each and a toy tonneau with five seats have survived.

The short model was discontinued in 1916. The remaining 45/50 HP was available as a touring car and roadster.

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1912 35/40 HP 6th 35/40 315 5-seater touring car, 2-seater runabout
1913 40/50 HP 6th 40/50 315 5-seater touring car, 3-seater roadster, Victoria, limousine
1913 45/50 HP 6th 45/50 340 7-seater touring car, 5-seater Phaeton
1914 40/50 HP 6th 40/50 315 Raceabout 2-seater, Runabout 2-seater, Coupé 2-seater
1914 40/50 HP 6th 40/50 340 Sedan, Touring Car 4-seat and 5-seat and 7-seat, Victoria 7-seat, Brougham, Town Landaulet
1915 40/50 HP 6th 40/50 315 Runabout 2-seater
1915 45/50 HP 6th 45/50 340 7-seater touring car, 7-seater sedan, 5-seater toy tonneau
1916 45/50 HP 6th 45/50 340 Touring cars, roadsters

Vim brand cars

The only model was much smaller than the Touraine brand vehicles . One source calls it a cycle car . In the absence of data, it cannot be proven whether it actually complied with the criteria for cyclecars. Series production is not known.

Vim brand trucks

The vehicles had four-cylinder engines from different manufacturers. The trucks were specified with 1.5 to 3 tons.

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. 1474 (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. 1599 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 1599 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c d Halwart Schrader , Jan P. Norbye: The truck lexicon. All brands 1900 to today. Schrader Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-613-01837-3 , p. 178.
  3. ↑ 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. 1474 (English).
  4. ↑ Advertisement (English, accessed March 30, 2019)
  5. ↑ 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. 1503 (English).