Witt-Thompson Motor Company

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Tulsa Automobile Corporation
Witt-Thompson Motor Company
legal form Company
founding 1917
resolution after 1923
Seat Tulsa , Oklahoma , USA
management DM Witt
Branch Automobiles

Witt-Thompson Motor Company , previously Tulsa Automobile Corporation , was an American manufacturer of automobiles . Another source only gives the original company name.

Company history

Mark E. Carr, GE Darland, TJ Hartman, and JO Mitchell founded Tulsa Automobile Corporation in February 1917. Its headquarters were in Tulsa , Oklahoma . The Tulsa Automobile & Manufacturing Company had operated at the plant a few years earlier . A little later they made a prototype . In the same year, the series production of automobiles began, which were assigned to the 1918 model year . The brand name was Tulsa . A fire in 1919 created problems.

A reorganization took place in the summer of 1920. OT Hewlett, RO Holleron, RM McFarlin and HH Rogers now ran the company. Floyd Thompson became the new sales manager.

In the summer of 1921, McFarlin and his partners sold the company to DM Witt. He took Thompson as a partner and named the company Witt-Thompson Motor Company . Production ended in 1922. After that, they made parts.

On March 3, 1923, the company was still reported on. It is not known when it was disbanded.

vehicles

Many parts were bought in. So the engine first came from Lycoming . The Model D had a four-cylinder engine with 37 hp . The chassis had a 298 cm wheelbase . There was a choice of touring cars with five seats, roadsters with four seats and an oil field runabout . The original price was 985 US dollars .

Model E followed in 1920 . The four-cylinder engine with the same output came from Herschell-Spillman . The wheelbase and superstructures did not change. Prices were now $ 1,335 for the runabout and $ 1,550 for the other two variants. In 1922 the price was a uniform $ 1,175.

A model with a six-cylinder engine is also mentioned. The price was a few hundred dollars higher. According to a source, the wheelbase was 302 cm.

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1918-1919 Model D 4th 37 298 5-seater touring car, 4-seater roadster, Oil Field Runabout
1920-1922 Model E. 4th 37 298 5-seater touring car, 4-seater roadster, Oil Field Runabout

Production numbers

The annual production number showed considerable fluctuations. Only 23 vehicles were built in 1918, compared to 227 in 1919. In 1920 the number fell to 53. In 1921, the highest level of 723 was reached. In 1922, 133 vehicles were still produced. In total, that's 1159 vehicles.

year Production number
1918 23
1919 227
1920 53
1921 723
1922 133
total 1159

Received vehicles

A vehicle is on display in Tulsa. A second is said to be in Australia .

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. 1482 (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. 1627 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h 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. 1482 (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. 1627 (English).
  3. ↑ The Evening News from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, March 3, 1923 (accessed May 25, 2019)
  4. ↑ a b Brett Berk: Forgotten Automakers: Tulsa Automobile Corporation from October 8, 2018 (English, accessed May 25, 2019)