Car Questions - K
My brother and I both seem to remember that our family car in the early
1920's was a King Touring Sedan. Can you tell me anything about that car?
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My brother and I both seem to remember that our family car in the early 1920s was a King Touring Sedan. Can you tell me anything about that car?The King Motor Car was made in the U.S. from 1910 - 1924. Charles B. King built the first car in Detroit in 1896, with a 4-cylinder horizontal engine. He later designed 2- and 4-cylinder cars for Northern. He formed his own company in 1909 and its first product was a 4-cylinder 35hp car with central gear change. This and a companion 30hp model were made up to 1915 when a small V-8 of under 4 litres was introduced. From 1916 on, only 8-cylinder cars were made, there being two models of 26 and 29hp. Prices ranged from $1,400 for a 1917 tourer to $4,235 for a 1921 sedan. This inflation, though common in the industry, hit King sales, which slumped from a maximum of 3,000 per year in 1916 to only 240 in 1923, the year that King moved to a smaller plant at Buffalo. A number of Kings were sold in England before and after the war.
Source: The New Encyclopedia of Automobiles, 1885 To The Present
