Vulcan Manufacturing Company

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Vulcan Motor Car Company
Vulcan Manufacturing Company
legal form Company
founding 1913
resolution 1916
Seat Painesville , Ohio , USA
Branch Motor vehicles

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

Company history

Alonzo R. Marsh had previous automotive experience with the Marsh Motor Carriage Company , the American Motor Company, and the Eastern Motor Company . In early 1913 he founded the Vulcan Motor Car Company in Painesville , Ohio . The production of automobiles found in a work of Driggs Ordnance & Manufacturing Corporation in Sharon in Pennsylvania instead. The brand name was Vulcan . The name was later changed to Vulcan Manufacturing Company . In July 1914, Marsh left the company and founded the Sterling Motor Car Company .

Shortly thereafter, the production of passenger cars ended . Bankruptcy began in early 1915 . Commercial vehicles were made until October 1916. The Collier Motor Truck Company then moved into the Painesville plant.

Car

Only Model 27 was on offer . It is described as a small car that was positioned well above the cycle car class on the market. He had a four-cylinder engine of Buda . A bore of 85.725 mm and a stroke of 127 mm resulted in a displacement of 2932 cc . This corresponded approximately to the Model T Ford . The engine developed 27 hp . The engine power was transmitted to the rear axle via a three-speed gearbox and a cardan shaft .

There was a choice of two chassis of different lengths . The shorter one had a wheelbase of 267 cm and was bodied as a two-seater roadster . The longer one with 292 cm wheelbase was designed as an open touring car with five seats.

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1913-1914 Model 27 4th 27 267 Roadster 2-seater
1913-1914 Model 27 4th 27 292 5-seater touring car
1915 Model 27 4th 27 267 Roadster 2-seater
1915 Model 27 4th 27 292 5-seater touring car

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. 1504 (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. 1712 (English).

Web links

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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. 1504 (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. 1712 (English).