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A 377 cu in (6.2 L) 4 cylinder gasoline engine 4X2 with chain drive, it was strong, reliable, and worked well in rough terrain. Introduced in 1916, there was a great demand because of World War I, over 6000 3 + 1 ⁄ 2-, 5 + 1 ⁄ 2-, and 7 + 1 ⁄ 2-ton trucks were built for the UK and US military. There were also commercial sales from 1916 ...
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 .
From 1902 until 1908, Jeffery moved steadily to bigger, more reliable models starting with the 1902 Model C. Jeffery cars were built on assembly lines (the second manufacturer to adopt them, Olds Motor Works was first), and in 1903 Jeffery sold 1,350 Ramblers. By 1905, Jeffery more than doubled this number.
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 ...
These unique vehicles also saw heavy service under General John J. "Blackjack" Pershing as both the Jeffery armored car and as regular transports during the Army's 1916 Punitive Expedition through Mexico; Quads were also used extensively during Pershing's later European campaigns of World War I. [4] The United States Marine Corps also adopted ...
For 1916, the company introduced the Highway Twelve, a 12-cylinder engine of the company's own design [3] (costing over $1,900 [4]) and changed its name to National Motor and Vehicle Corporation. Curiously, the 6-cylinder engine option was priced higher than the 12-cylinder, perhaps because National outsourced the 6-cylinder to Continental ...
Production commenced later that year and 150 had been produced by spring of 1914. In 1914, a smaller 4-cylinder car was added, selling for $675. The Monarch was called "The Car with the Silver Wheels" in company advertisements. [1] Hupp designed a larger vehicle with a 4.6L V8 engine. The five-passenger open model weighed 3,000 lb (1,400 kg ...
The car had shaft drive and a three-speed sliding gear transmission, and was priced in the $1000 range. Sun Motor Cars ordered 3,500 engines under contract from the Beaver Manufacturing Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, but since a little over 1,100 cars were made in the two years, the company was in receivership by September 1917. The company's ...