The Chandler Automobile

A History Including the Cleveland and Chandler-Cleveland Marques

James H. Lackey (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

2018
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-6393-7 (ISBN)

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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.

Retired construction electrician James H. Lackey is a charter member of the Jordan Register and has been its historian for many years. He lives in Huntington, West Virginia.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments deletevi

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

Erscheinungsdatum	11.07.2018
Zusatzinfo	377 photos (46 in color), notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	216 x 279 mm
Gewicht	975 g
Themenwelt	Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Auto / Motorrad
Themenwelt	Technik ► Fahrzeugbau / Schiffbau
ISBN-10	1-4766-6393-9 / 1476663939
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-6393-7 / 9781476663937
Zustand	Neuware