WB Engler

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WB Engler
legal form
founding 1913
resolution 1914
Seat Detroit , Michigan , USA
management William B. Engler
Branch Automobiles

WB Engler was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

William B. Engler was an engineer at General Motors . He manufactured a vehicle in his hometown of Pontiac , Michigan , in 1913 . He then moved to Detroit , Michigan, and began manufacturing automobiles. The brand name was Engler . Production ended in 1914. In total, only a few vehicles were built.

vehicles

On offer were small cars that were called cycle cars but did not meet the criteria. The air-cooled two-cylinder engine came from Deluxe . It had 88.9 mm bore , 93.2 mm stroke , 1157 cc displacement and made 10 hp . It drove the rear axle via belts.

The first version had a 279 cm wheelbase and 91 cm track width and offered space for two people in a row. In the second version from spring 1914, the wheelbase was shortened to 234 cm and the track width was widened to 112 cm. It remains unclear whether the seats were now arranged next to each other. The original price was 385 US dollars .

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. 538 (English).
  • George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 1: A-F . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 500 (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. 538 (English).
  2. ↑ George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 1: A-F . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 500 (English).