Wisconsin Carriage Company

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Wisconsin Carriage Company
legal form Company
founding 1885
resolution around 1915
Reason for dissolution reorganization
Seat Janesville , Wisconsin , USA
Branch vehicles

Wisconsin Carriage Company was an American manufacturer of vehicles .

Company history

The company was founded in 1885 in Janesville , Wisconsin . It made carriages . In 1909 Arthur P. Aller, Walter R. Kohler, William Morris and RE Wisner ran the company. They promoted the designer TE Warnock from Detroit to order cars to design. Production began in 1910. The brand name was Wisco . Planning amounted to 100 vehicles for the first year. In the same year the production of motor vehicles ended . Carriages continued to be made.

A reorganization led to the Janesville Products Company around 1915 , which existed until 1940.

Motor vehicles

The vehicles had a four-cylinder engine . A 111.125 mm bore and 120.65 mm stroke resulted in a displacement of 4680 cm³ . The engine was specified with 30.5 hp . The chassis had a 300 cm wheelbase . The Model A-4 was a four-seat baby tonneau . The A-5 model was an open touring car with five seats. The new price was 1750 US dollars each .

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1910 Model A-4 4th 30.5 300 Baby tonneau 4-seater
1910 Model A-5 4th 30.5 300 5-seater touring car

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. 1562 (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. 1756 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d 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. 1562 (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. 1756 (English).