Woods Motor Vehicle Company

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Woods Motor Vehicle Company
legal form Company
founding 1899
resolution 1918
Seat Chicago , Illinois , USA
management Louis Burr
Branch Automobiles

Woods with an electric motor from 1905
Woods with Otto engine from 1905
Woods with hybrid engine from 1916
Woods Dual Power from 1917 in the Louwman Museum

Woods Motor Vehicle Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded in Chicago , Illinois in early 1899 . The aim was to compete with the Electric Vehicle Company . The company acquired patents from Edgar Woods, who started selling electric cars as Clinton E. Woods in 1897 and who was also superintendent for the company for a while. In 1899 the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Woods .

In 1901 bankruptcy began , which was survived in 1902. Jay Dixon Chappell took over the company in July 1902. Now trucks and buses were also built . In 1905 Louis Burr became president. A new plant was built in which the annual production could be tripled.

Production ended in 1918. A total of over 13,000 vehicles were built .

vehicles

Initially, only electric cars were manufactured. Initially, the electric motor was mounted in the area of ​​the rear axle. From 1903, the cars had a front hood that resembled the hoods of vehicles with gasoline engines . The batteries were underneath . Two electric motors, each with an output of 2.5 hp, propelled the vehicles via a four-speed gearbox. The more modern design as a tonneau with a rear door was also similar to the competition with a gasoline engine.

Between 1905 and 1907 there was a model in the range that was called the Gasoline Car . It had a four-cylinder engine with 40 hp. Each 127 mm bore and stroke resulted in 6435 cm³ displacement . Whether these vehicles also had an electric motor and were therefore hybrid electric vehicles has not been clearly clarified in the literature. With 38 vehicles in 1905, 103 the following year and 114 in 1907, these cars were less successful than the electric cars.

From 1908 to 1916 there were only electric cars. Over time, they lost market share, especially due to their limited reach .

In 1915, the development of vehicles with hybrid drives began. The market launch for the 1917 model year took place in the summer of 1916. They had a self-made four-cylinder engine and an electric motor. The electric motor propelled the vehicles up to a speed of 24 km / h, above that the gasoline engine. From June 1917, a four-cylinder engine was used by the Continental Motors Company . The vehicle concept was not yet fully developed. There were a number of warranty cases. In 1918 there were 1,300 orders, but only 628 vehicles could be produced.

An overview of the individual models and structures for each year can be found in the table below.

Model overview

year model execution cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1903 Electric Style 1/2 A
Style 2
Style 3
Style 4
Style 5
Style 6-2
Style 7
Style 8
Style 9 A
Style 9 B
Style 10
Style 11
Style 12
Style 13
Style 14		 Road Wagon
Park Buggy
Park Trap
Brake
Surrey
Stanhope
Phaeton
Spider
Full Mail Phaeton
Demi Mail Phaeton
Physician’s Coupé
Hansom Cab
Victoria Hansom Cab
Brougham
Victoria
1904 Electric Style 101 163 Runabout
1904 Electric Style 102 175 Stanhope
1904 Electric Style 103 188 Victoria
1904 Electric Style 104 224 Tonneau
1904 Electric Style 105 173 Round Front Brougham
1904 Electric Style 107 178 Straight Front Brougham
1904 Electric Style 112 183 delivery trucks
1904 Electric Style 114 185 Queen Victoria
1904 Electric Style 115 211 Landaulet
1904 Electric Style 116 224 Front Operated Extension Front Brougham
1904 Electric Style 117 185 Rear Operated Extension Front Brougham
1904 Electric Style 118 218 Station wagon
1904 Electric Style 119 193 Surrey
1904 Electric Style 120 185 Inside Operated Brougham
1905 Electric Style 102 175 Stanhope
1905 Electric Style 103 188 Victoria
1905 Electric Style 105 173 Round Front Brougham
1905 Electric Style 107 178 Straight Front Brougham
1905 Electric Style 114 185 Queen Victoria
1905 Electric Style 115 211 Open landaulet
1905 Electric Style 116 224 Front Operated Extension Brougham
1905 Electric Style 117 191 Rear Operated Extension Brougham
1905 Electric Style 118 218 Station wagon
1905 Electric Style 119 193 Surrey
1905 Electric Style 120 185 Inside Operated Brougham
1905 Electric Style 121 208 Canopy top bus
1905 Electric Style 201 163 Runabout
1905 Gasoline car 4th 40 274 Side entrance tonneau, limousine
1906 Electric Style 103 188 Victoria
1906 Electric Style 105 173 Round Front Brougham
1906 Electric Style 107 178 Straight Front Brougham
1906 Electric Style 115 211 Landaulet
1906 Electric Style 116 224 Front Drive Extension Brougham
1906 Electric Style 117 191 Rear Drive Extension Brougham
1906 Electric Style 118 218 Station wagon
1906 Electric Style 119 193 Surrey
1906 Electric Style 120 185 Inside Drive Brougham
1906 Electric Style 201 185 Runabout
1906 Electric Style 202 244 Extension Front Brougham
1906 Electric Style 214 A 185 Queen Victoria
1906 Gasoline car 4th 40 305 Tonneau, touring car , limousine, Pullman
1907 Electric Style 214 A 185 Queen Victoria Brougham
1907 Electric Style 214 B 185 Queen Victoria
1907 Electric Style 215 211 Extension landaulet
1907 Electric Style 216 224 Extension Brougham
1907 Electric Style 217 191 Special landaulet
1907 Gasoline car 4th 40/45 305 7-seater touring car, 7-seater sedan
1908 Electric Queen Victoria 185 Brougham, roadster
1909 Electric Queen Victoria 185 Brougham, roadster
1910 Electric Style 214 188 Victoria
1910 Electric Style 214 C 188 Brougham
1910 Electric Style 1012 218 Coupe
1911 Electric Model 1012 218 Coupe
1911 Electric Model 1014 188 Coupe
1911 Electric Model 1014 C 188 Brougham
1912 Electric Model 1316 229 Extension Brougham
1912 Electric Model 1317 234 Extension Brougham
1912 Electric Model 1318 274 limousine
1913 Electric Model 1319 234 Victoria
1913 Electric Model 1320 234 Roadster
1913 Electric Model 1321 234 Brougham
1913 Electric Model 1322 259 Brougham
1913 Electric Model 1323 234 Front Drive Pony Sedan
1913 Electric Model 1324 234 Rear Drive Pony Sedan
1913 Electric Model 1325 234 Vis-à-vis Brougham
1914 Electric Model 1332 259 Brougham 5-seat
1914 Electric Model 1333 234 Brougham 5-seat
1914 Electric Model 1334 234 Brougham 4-seater
1914 Electric Model 1335 234 Brougham
1915 Electric Model 1501 254 Dual Control Brougham 5-seat
1915 Electric Model 1503 254 Front Control Brougham
1915 Electric Model 1504 254 Rear Control Brougham 5-seater
1915 Electric Model 1522 254 Rear Control Brougham 4-seater
1916 Electric Model 1600 254 Front Control Brougham 4-seater
1917 Dual power 279 Coupé coach
1918 Dual power 315 Coupé coach

Source:

Production numbers

year Production number
1899 6th
1900 12
1901 16
1902 31
1903 186
1904 215
1905 448
1906 609
1907 1,047
1908 1.110
1909 1,118
1910 1,116
1911 1,228
1912 1.306
1913 1,118
1914 1,112
1915 1,016
1916 723
1917 538
1918 628
total 13,583

Source:

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. 1566-1570 (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).

Web links

Commons : Woods Motor Vehicle Company  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c 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. 1566-1570 (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).
  3. ^ A b Automobile Quarterly Volume 45, Issue 1, pp. 86–97 (English).