The Chandler Automobile: A History Including the Cleveland and Chandler-Cleveland Marques

Incorporated by veteran automakers in 1913, the Chandler Motor Car Company was initially successful in a fiercely competitive industry, manufacturing an array of quality automobiles at a range of prices. Yet by the late 1920s the company was floundering under mismanagement. Producing four lines of c...

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Veröffentlicht: Jefferson McFarland 2023
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Zusammenfassung:Incorporated by veteran automakers in 1913, the Chandler Motor Car Company was initially successful in a fiercely competitive industry, manufacturing an array of quality automobiles at a range of prices. Yet by the late 1920s the company was floundering under mismanagement. Producing four lines of cars with numerous body styles, Chandler and its lower-priced companion marque, Cleveland, were unable to find markets for their numerous models and seemed in effect to be competing against themselves.Drawing on numerous automotive histories and two large private collections of memorabilia, this exhaustive study of the Chandler Motor Car Company covers the automobiles in detail, including all body styles, and their changes during production. The author chronicles the growth, expansion and later troubles of Chandler and Cleveland, providing fresh insight into the formative years of the auto industry and the personalities who made it go
Beschreibung:377 photos (46 in colour)
Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; I. Chandler; One. 1912–1913: Roots and Beginning; Two. 1914–1916: Small Company, Big Success; Three. 1917–1918: The War Years; Four. 1919–1922: Postwar Recession and Recovery; Five. 1923–1924: The Pikes Peak Motor and Traffic Transmission; Six. 1925–1926: Racing Success, Internal Struggles and Merger; Seven. 1927 Model Year: Too Many Models, Too Little Profit; Eight. 1928 Model Year: Big Sixes, Big Eights, Big Trouble; Nine. The End of Chandler; Ten. Advertising, Personalities, Distributors and Dealers; Between pages 118 and 119 are 16 color plates containing 46 photographs; Eleven. Racing, Hill Climbing, Endurance and Other Competition; Twelve. Chandler Specifications; II. Cleveland; Thirteen. The Cleveland Model 40, 1919–1921; Fourteen. Models 41 and 42, 1922–1924; Fifteen. Models 43 and 31 and the "Mileage Motor," 1925–1926; Sixteen. Racing, Hill Climbing, Distributors, Dealers and Advertising; Seventeen. Cleveland Specifications; Appendix A. Press Release of 1915 Nonstop Mexico to Canada Run; Appendix B. Chandler Dealer Contract, 1916; Chapter Notes; Bibliography; Index
Beschreibung:277 p 279 mm
ISBN:9781476693415

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