Wolverine Motors

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Wolverine Motors Inc.
legal form Inc.
founding 1917
resolution 1919
Seat Kalamazoo , Michigan , USA
management Albert H. Collins
Branch Automobiles

Wolverine Motors was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Albert H. Collins, who previously worked for Locomobile , Hupp-Yeats Electric Car Company, and Staver Motor Company , and Harry A. Scott founded the company in Kalamazoo , Michigan in 1917 . In the same year the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Wolverine . The company received at least a commitment from Duesenberg Motors in Elizabeth (New Jersey) for the supply of walking beam engines. This promise could not be kept after the USA entered the war in World War I and the subsequent conversion of Duesenberg Motors to arms contracts. War-related material shortages and transport bottlenecks due to the low priority of passenger cars also caused problems at Wolverine. Production ended in 1919.

Wolverine Auto & Commercial Vehicle Company and Wolverine used the same brand name.

vehicles

The vehicles were designed to be particularly sporty and were intended to compete with the Stutz Bearcat from the Stutz Motor Car Company of America .

The first vehicle had a four-cylinder engine from the Wisconsin Motor Manufacturing Company . The chassis had a 317.5 cm wheelbase . The body was a roadster . The original price was 3500 US dollars . Wolverine built several prototypes, including, with some certainty, a roadster with a Duesenberg engine in 1918.

The next vehicle was not built until 1919. It had a four-cylinder engine from Rochester-Duesenberg , a technically revised license production of the Duesenberg engine. Here a body is called a touring car . However, Wolverine does not appear in a list of vehicles with this engine, which also includes prototypes and projects. The engine appeared on the market in the autumn of 1919. Manufacturer was the Rochester Motors Company, Inc. in Rochester (New York) , which John North Willys owned. The engine was revised in cooperation with Fred Duesenberg and made suitable for series production and road use. It was available well into the 1920s.

There is also a source of a touring car for $ 3,250. A limousine may also have been built . They again had Wisconsin engines, like those used by Stutz.

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. 1564 (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. 1763 (English).
  • Fred Roe: Duesenberg - The Pursuit of Perfection. Dalton Watson Ltd., Publishers, London W1V 4AN, England, 1982, ISBN 0-90156-432-X .
  • Don Butler: Auburn Cord Duesenberg. Crestline Publishing Co., Crestline Series , Nov. 1992: ISBN 0879387017 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f 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. 1564 (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. 1763 (English).
  3. ^ A b Roe: Duesenberg - The Pursuit of Perfection. 1982, p. 47.
  4. ^ Butler: Auburn Cord Duesenberg. 1992, p. 84.
  5. ^ Roe: Duesenberg - The Pursuit of Perfection. 1982, p. 65.
  6. ^ Roe: Duesenberg - The Pursuit of Perfection. 1982, p. 63.