WS Frazier & Company

WS Frazier & Company
legal form	Company
founding	before 1914
resolution	1920s
Seat	Aurora , Illinois , USA
management	Walter S. Frazier
Branch	vehicles

WS Frazier & Company was an American manufacturer of vehicles .

Company history

Walter S. Frazier headed the company based in Aurora , Illinois . Mainly he made sulkies . In 1914 the production of automobiles began . The prototype was called Frazier . The series vehicles were given the Sprite brand name . Motor vehicle production ended in the same year.

The company produced sulkies until the 1920s.

vehicles

The prototype has been called a cyclecar , although it is unclear whether it met the criteria. It had a two-cylinder engine with 9 hp .

The production model, on the other hand, had a water-cooled four - cylinder engine from Farmer . A bore of 69.85 mm and a stroke of 101.6 mm resulted in a displacement of 1557 cm³ . The limit for cycle cars was thus clearly exceeded. The engine output of 12 hp was transmitted to the rear axle via a friction gear and belt. The open body offered space for two people next to each other.

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. 613 and p. 1371 (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. 1486 (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. 613 and p. 1371 (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. 1486 (English).