Willoughby Company

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EA Willoughby Carriage & Sleigh Works
Willoughby’s Utica Carriage Company
Willoughby-Owen Company
Willoughby Company
legal form Company
founding 1893
resolution 1938
Seat Utica , New York , USA
Branch Bodies , vehicles

Duesenberg with Willoughby body

Willoughby Company was an American manufacturer of body shells and vehicles . It has been renamed several times.

Company history

EA Willoughby Carriage & Sleigh Works was founded in Rome , New York State, in 1893 . In March 1897 a fire destroyed the plant.

On March 30, 1897, Willoughby took over the Utica Carriage Company , which was founded on March 20, 1893 and in 1897 was in bankruptcy . The seat was moved to Utica , New York. The new company name was Willoughby's Utica Carriage Company . The production of carriages , which both companies had operated, continued.

In 1898, William H. Owen was accepted as a partner. The company was renamed the Willoughby-Owen Company . In 1899 the Columbia Automobile Company ordered 135 bodies for their electric cars. After completing this order, the company began producing automobiles in 1901 . The brand name was Willoughby , possibly with the addition of Electric . In 1902 the production of complete motor vehicles ended .

On January 28, 1903, the last name change to Willoughby Company was known. The company continued to manufacture car bodies. The liquidation followed in 1938.

Motor vehicles

The only model was an electric car .

Bodies

The company manufactured bodies for vehicles from the following manufacturers: Cadillac , Chandler Motor Car , Cole Motor Car Company , Dodge , Duesenberg , HH Franklin Manufacturing Company , Hudson Motor Car Co. , Lincoln , Locomobile , Lozier Motor Company , Marmon , Moon Motor Car Company , Packard , Peerless Motor Car Corporation , Pierce-Arrow , Remington Motor Vehicle Company , Rolls-Royce of America , Studebaker Corporation , Velie and Wills Sainte Claire Motor Company .

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. 1545 (English).

Web links

Commons : Willoughby Company  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Mark Theobald on www.coachbuilt.com: Page 1 , Page 2 , Page 3 , Page 4 and Page 5 (English, accessed April 27, 2019)
  2. ↑ 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. 1545 (English).
  3. ↑ a b c Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry . McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864-0972-3 , pp. 305 (English).