Ward Motor Vehicle Company

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Ward Motor Vehicle Company
legal form Company
founding 1910
resolution 1965
Seat Mount Vernon , New York , USA
Branch Motor vehicles

Ward Motor Vehicle Company was an American manufacturer of motor vehicles .

Company history

Charles A. Ward founded the company in the Bronx neighborhood of New York City in 1910 . He started with the production of commercial vehicles . Passenger cars were added in 1913 . The brand name was Ward .

In 1915 the company moved to Mount Vernon , also in the US state of New York . Car production ended in 1916. Trucks were manufactured until 1934 or 1937, depending on the source, and bodies until 1965.

There was no connection with the Ward Cyclecar Company , which at the same time also offered passenger cars as Ward .

vehicles

Only electric cars were on offer . The only car model was only available as a coupé with space for four people. The engine power was transmitted via a cardan shaft . The range was given as 160 km. The original price was initially 2100 US dollars and last year 1295 dollars.

The commercial vehicles have electric motors of Westinghouse . The vehicles were specified with up to 10 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. 1513 (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. 1721 (English).

Web links

Commons : Ward Motor Vehicle Company  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e 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. 1513 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c d 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. 1721 (English).
  3. ↑ a b Halwart Schrader , Jan P. Norbye: The truck lexicon. All brands 1900 to today. Schrader Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-613-01837-3 , p. 184.