Dort (automobile)

The There was a car that was built by the There Motor Car Company in Flint (Michigan) 1915-1924. The cars were equipped with Lycoming engines.

History

The Company was formed as Flint Road Cart Company in 1884 by William C. Durant and Josiah Dallas There, the carts of local firms for U.S. $ 8, -, founded the piece sold. In 1900, the company that made ​​this time of year 50,000 wagons, where renamed Durant Carriage Company.

1912, where director and vice president of Chevrolet, 1913 was but he left this post in 1915 he separated also from Durant and the company was renamed the Durant Motor Car Company. Chief engineer Etienne Planche was who had built with Louis Chevrolet together its first automobile. 1920 was the best year of the Company, over 30,000 vehicles were built. In Canada, the car of William Gray were manufactured under license and, where offered as Gray.

The Motor Car Company built there until 1924, a total of 107,000 cars and then had to give up because the rising cost of development and marketing in the 1920s took an economic operation impossible. After the death of Josiah Dallas in 1925, where the fate of the company was sealed.

Models

Source

Kimes, Beverly Ray & Clark jr. Henry Austin: Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805-1942, Krause Publications, Iola WI (1985 ), ISBN 0-87341-045-9

• Former Automobile Manufacturers Association ( United States)
• Company (Michigan)
• Flint ( Michigan)