Woodruff Automobile Company

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Woodruff Automobile Company
legal form Company
founding 1902
resolution 1904
Seat Akron , Ohio , USA
management Albert M. Woodruff
Branch Automobiles

Woodruff Automobile Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The brothers Albert M. and George E. Woodruff were employed by the Akron Motor Carriage Company around 1900 . This company made some prototypes of automobiles, but had to give up in July 1901.

The brothers then founded the new company in 1902. Funders came from Akron and Cleveland , both in Ohio . The company headquarters and factory were in Akron. There was a sales office in Cleveland. In the same year the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Woodruff . In March 1903, George Woodruff, who was the driving force behind the company, died. Production ended in 1904. Twenty-four vehicles have survived for 1903 and six for 1904.

Woodruff founded the Akron Two-Cycle Automobile Company in 1905 .

vehicles

From 1902 to 1903 there were only small vehicles. They had a single cylinder engine in the rear. One version had a 4.5 hp engine , a runabout structure and a steering lever. The original price was 775 US dollars . Both in the Stanhope and in the Dos-à-dos -Stanhope the engine developed 6 HP. Was steered with a steering wheel . There is also a light delivery van called Light Delivery Stanhope .

In 1904 a larger vehicle appeared. It had a three-cylinder engine with 30 hp. It was mounted in the front of the vehicle and drove the rear axle via a chain. The chassis had a wheelbase of 244 cm . Depending on the source, the structure was a touring car or a tonneau . The maximum speed indicated was 72 km / h.

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1902-1903 4 ½ HP 1 4.5 Runabout
1902-1903 6 HP 1 6th Stanhope, Dos-à-dos Stanhope
1902-1903 delivery trucks 1 6th Light Delivery Stanhope
1904 30 HP 4th 30th 244 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. 1565-1566 (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. 1764 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 1565-1566 (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. 1764 (English).