Norwalk Motor Car Company
The Norwalk Motor Car Company was an American automaker , which was in 1910-1911 in Norwalk (Ohio) and 1912-1922 in Martinsburg (West Virginia) resident. The brand name was mostly Norwalk .
History
Arthur E. Skadden , previously plant manager at the Pressed Radiator Company in New Castle (Pennsylvania) , founded in March 1909 in Norwalk, the car-Bug Company for making a Highwheelers . Although this simple vehicle was quite successful and was built by the end of 1910, Skadden renamed the company in April 1910 to Norwalk Motor Car Company and produced more technically sophisticated roadsters and touring cars with four-cylinder engines, which at 4113 cc displacement 35-45 bhp (26-35 kW). The financial ceiling was thin, and new investors were not found, so the company had to declare bankruptcy in 1911. The engine supplier and largest creditor whoModel Gas Engine Company in Peru (Indiana) , bought on machinery, buildings and the three remaining cars.
Skadden moved to Martinsburg and co-founded his company with Gilbert McKown , James M. Rothwell , Charles F. Glaser and Thomas W. Martin . The last made in Norwalk Model 45 was taken over unchanged. This can be a six-cylinder model. From 1913, the models A and B were built with six-cylinder engines of 8603 cc displacement and up to 70 bhp (51 kW), which supplied Continental . They had an American Underslung frameand cost between $ 2750 and $ 3750. But by the end of 1914, the bailiff was already at the door. In February 1915, the production was discontinued, but the company was not dissolved. Skadden continued to stand by her and initially dealt with the repair and painting of automobiles.
Only in 1918 he moved again to a car production. The vehicles were more conventional high-frame automobiles and equipped with four-and six-cylinder engines from Lycoming . The prices were around 1000 US $. Norwalk also produced cars for Piedmont .
Arthur Skadden died in 1919 and his widow continued to run the business. In September 1922, the company was dissolved.
Brand name Clark-Norwalk .This brand name in 1910 contributed some vehicles that sold the sales agency in Cleveland . In late 1910, one of these vehicles was presented at the Cleveland Armory Automobile Show .
Technical
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Norwalk models
model Construction period cylinder power wheelbase constructions 35 1910-1911 4 row 35 bhp (26 kW) 2972 mm Runabout 2 Seats, Torpedo Roadster 2 Seats, Touring Cars 4/5 Seats 40 1911 4 row 40 bhp (29 kW) 2972 mm Torpedo Roadster 2 seats, torpedo 4 seats, touring car 5 seats 45 1911-1912 4 row 45 bhp (33 kW) 2972-3150 mm Torpedo Roadster 2 Seats, Speedster 2 Seats, Torpedo 4 Seats, Touring Cars 5/6 Seats Six 1912 6 row 38 bhp (28 kW) 3454 mm Touringcar 6 seats A 1913-1915 6 row 60 bhp (44 kW) 3226-3454 mm Roadster 2 seats, touring car 5/6 seats B 1913-1915 6 row 70 bhp (51 kW) 3454-3658 mm Roadster 2/4 seats, touring car 4/6 seats 4-18 / 4-19 / 4-30 / 4-30 KS 1918-1921 4 row 35 bhp (26 kW) 2946 mm Touringcar 5 seats 6-18 1918 6 row 30 bhp (22 kW) 2946 mm Touringcar 5 seats 4-40 1922 4 row 40 bhp (29 kW) 2946 mm Touringcar 5 seats Production figures
year production number 1910 137 1911 238 1912 336 1913 412 1914 387 1915 162 1916 0 1917 0 1918 153 1919 127 1920 83 1921 61 1922 25 Total 2121
