Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Bush was a mail-order car made by the Bush Motor Company of Chicago from 1916 to 1924. Bush Motors did no manufacturing but bought in cars from other makers. Lycoming and Continental motors were often used for the 4- and 6-cylinder versions of the car.
All Franklin cars were air-cooled, which the company considered simpler and more reliable than water cooling, and the company considered light weight to be critical in making a well-performing car given the limited power of the engines then available. Most Franklins were wood-framed, though the very first used an angle iron frame (1902) and ...
The car used a 12 horsepower four-cylinder Sterling motor, Schebler carburetor, and a solid rear axle made by the Detroit Axle Company. The design features included magneto ignition and splash lubrication. [1] The 1916 model, shown at the Chicago Automobile Show in January, had dropped the wickework body and got a longer wheelbase of 104 inches ...
1922 Anderson Touring car at the South Carolina State Museum. The Anderson was a United States automobile; considered the most successful automobile ever built in the Southern United States, it was manufactured by a carriage works from 1916 to 1925 in Rock Hill, South Carolina. Started by John Gary Anderson, the company sold cars through a ...
The company was founded in 1916, in Oakland, California, by Rollie, William, Frank and Claude Fageol, to manufacture motor trucks, farm tractors and automobiles. [1] It was located next to Oakland Assembly , then a Chevrolet factory originally built in 1917 by William Durant , which later became part of General Motors .
1916 Grant Touring Car. The Grant Motor Co was an American automobile manufacturing company from 1913 to 1922, based in Findlay, Ohio. [1] [2] The company produced several thousand four- and six-cylinder automobiles, and exported cars to England as Whiting-Grant. [1] In 1916, a five-passenger touring car produced by the company sold for US$795. [2]
Liberty Motor Car Company was started in February 1916 with capital stock of $400,000 to produce medium-priced cars. Percy Owen, vice-president of Saxon was president and R. E. Cole was Engineer. The R.C.H. automobile factory was purchased for production. The Liberty car was introduced at the Hotel Pontchartrain in Detroit in the summer of 1916 ...
It was powered by a sidevalve V8 engine, the maker's first, and shared with the 1916 Oakland Model 50. [2] The Light Eight was an all new platform, and was produced at the Lansing Car Assembly, with its engine sourced from Northway Engine Works. [3] [4] [5] and coachwork supplied by Fisher Body. [1]