Wilcox Trux

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HE Wilcox Motor Car Company
HE Wilcox Motor Company
Wilcox Trux Inc.
legal form Inc.
founding 1906
resolution 1928
Seat Minneapolis , Minnesota , USA
Branch Motor vehicles

Wilcox Trux , previously HE Wilcox Motor Car Company and HE Wilcox Motor Company , was an American manufacturer of motor vehicles . One source also names the HE Wilcox Motor Truck Company .

Company history

Maurice Wolfe and the brothers John F. and HE Wilcox founded the HE Wilcox Motor Car Company in 1906 . The seat was in Minneapolis , Minnesota . In 1907 the production of passenger cars began . The brand name was initially Wolfe . In the first year 30 vehicles were built and in the following year 153. In 1909 there were 117 and in the following year 189.

In 1909 the brand name changed to Wilcox . In 1910 the production of commercial vehicles was added. This led to the end of 1910 car production was stopped.

The name was later changed to HE Wilcox Motor Company and in 1921 to Wilcox Trux .

In 1928 the company was dissolved.

Car

The cars had four-cylinder engines . In 1907 the Wolfe was available as a 24 HP . That was an indication of the engine power of 24 hp . The chassis was 274 cm. The structure was an open touring car with five seats.

The only known change for 1908 is that the number of seats is no longer specified.

The 30 HP followed in 1909 . Its engine developed 30 hp. The wheelbase was 320 cm. There was a choice of a five-seat touring car and a four-seat roadster .

The only Wilcox was the Model 36 . The engine was specified with 30/40 hp, the wheelbase measured 292 cm. A touring car tonneau with five seats, a baby tonneau with five seats and a roadster with two seats have been handed down.

year brand model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1907 Wolfe 24 HP 4th 24 274 5-seater touring car
1908 Wolfe 24 HP 4th 24 274 Touring car
1909 Wolfe 30 HP 4th 30th 320 5-seater touring car, 4-seater roadster
1909-1910 Wilcox Model 36 4th 30/40 292 Touring car tonneau 5-seater, baby tonneau 5-seater, roadster 2-seater

commercial vehicles

These are trucks with a front-link design . The engines came from Buda , the Continental Motors Company or were manufactured in-house. The specified payload is 1 to 5 tons.

From 1925 onwards, the production of buses increased .

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. 1543 and p. 1563 (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. 1757 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 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. 1543 and p. 1563 (English).
  2. ↑ 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. 1757 (English).
  3. ↑ a b c d Halwart Schrader , Jan P. Norbye: The truck lexicon. All brands 1900 to today. Schrader Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-613-01837-3 , p. 189.