Clarkmobile

Clarkmobile was an automobile first built in 1902 by Frank Clark of Clark & Company in Lansing, Michigan. The first model became available in 1903. A newspaper article referred to the automobile as the 'Unbreakable Clarkmobile' and showed it surviving an accident.

Before the Clarkmobile, Clark & Company Carriage Works built the body for the first test car produced by Ransom E. Olds.[1]

Production ceased in 1904. The Deere-Clark company purchased the company's tools and machinery.[2] Frank Clark went on to make the Clark car in Shelbyville, Indiana.[3]

Features

The Clarkmobile included a number of innovative features such as wheel steering, shaft drive, a front end with hood, and a new engine design.

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-10-25. Retrieved 2009-07-07.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. Kimes, Beverly Rae; Clark, Henry Austin, Jr (1996). Standard Catalog of American Cars: 1805–1942. Iola, WI: Krause Publications. p. 423. ISBN 978-0-87341-428-9.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. Georgano, N. (2000). Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. London: HMSO. ISBN 1-57958-293-1.


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