Worth Motor Car Manufacturing Company

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Worth Motor Car Manufacturing Company
legal form Company
founding 1906
resolution 1910
Reason for dissolution Bankrupt
Seat Kankakee , Illinois , USA
management William O. Worth
Branch Motor vehicles

Worth Motor Car Manufacturing Company was an American manufacturer of motor vehicles .

Company history

William O. Worth worked for the Single Center Spring Company . In 1906 he founded his own company in Evansville , Indiana . He started with the production of passenger cars . The brand name was Worth .

In 1907 he moved to Kankakee , also in Indiana. Commercial vehicles were added that year . Production ended in 1910. In October 1910 it went bankrupt .

vehicles

Passenger cars

One source mentions only the Model A . It was a high wheeler . The two-cylinder engine with 22.5 hp was air-cooled . It drove the rear axle via a friction gear and two chains. The chassis had a wheelbase of 249 cm . The build was a Surrey . Was steered with a steering lever.

Another source states that only Evansville made highwheelers. The vehicles from Kankakee were more modern and lower. The engine was retained. The open structure without doors offered space for four people.

The engine had 127 mm bore and stroke . This resulted in a displacement of 3217 cm³ .

commercial vehicles

Narrated are buses . The smallest was a highwheeler with a two-cylinder engine and space for five passengers. The middle one was a nine-seater. The largest had a four-cylinder engine with 60 hp. The wheelbase was 356 cm. It had 16 seats.

Model D was a delivery truck . Its wheelbase was 254 cm.

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. 1572 (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. 1765 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 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. 1572 (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. 1765 (English).
  3. ↑ a b c Coachbuilt (English, accessed May 4, 2019)