Wichita Falls Motor Company

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Wichita Falls Motor Company
legal form Company
founding 1911
resolution 1932
Seat Wichita Falls , Texas , USA
Branch Motor vehicles

The building in 2013, now available from Wichita Energy used

Wichita Falls Motor Company was an American automobile manufacturer from Texas . The company is easily confused with the Wichita Motor Company .

Company history

Joseph Kemp founded the company in Wichita Falls in 1911 . It mainly manufactured commercial vehicles and is considered the largest automobile manufacturer in Texas. Passenger cars were also produced between 1920 and 1921 . The brand name was Wichita . Truck production ended in 1932.

vehicles

The only car model was the 50 HP . It had a four-cylinder engine with 50 hp . The chassis had a wheelbase of 323 cm . The structure was called a utility . There was space for three people. The payload was given as around 450 kg.

The trucks were specified with 1 to 5 tons. Many were used in agriculture in the southern states .

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. 1542 (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. 1740 (English).

Web links

Commons : Wichita Falls Motor Company  - Collection of images, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 189.
  2. ↑ a b Texas Transportation museum (English, accessed April 27, 2019)
  3. ↑ a b c 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. 1542 (English).
  4. ↑ a b 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. 1740 (English).