413 Woods Motor Co. (Gasoline Electric), Chcago - Badge and potted history
Woods Motor Co. (Gasoline Electric), Chcago - Badge and potted history
AUTOMOTIVE BADGES ALBUM
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Woods Motor Vehicle Company was an American manufacturer of electric automobiles in Chicago, Illinois, between 1899 to 1919 The Woods Motor Vehicle Company was founded on the 28th of September 1899 by Clinton Edgar Woods with a capitalization of $10,000,000.The headquarters and showroom for Woods Motor Vehicle Company were located in an 1891 loft structure in Chicago's early Motor Row at the modern address of 1130 S. Wabash Avenue, Chicago (Chicago introduced its present address and street name system beginning in 1909. For the first 18 years Woods built conventional electric cars. Then in 1917, came the $ 2,650 Woods Dual Power with a 12hp Continental petrol engine supplementing its electric motor which was mounted where the gear box would normally go
The 1904 Woods Victoria was a carriage-styled model. It could seat 2 passengers and sold for US$1900. The same twin electric motors as the Stanhope were used, though a 4-speed transmission was fitted. The car weighed 2,700 pounds (1,200 kg). Forty-cell batteries were also used, with an 18 mph (29 km/h) top speed.
A CAR 80 YEARS AHEAD OF ITS TIME
At $2,700, The Dual Power Model 44 Coupe of 1911 to 1918 had a 4-cylinder internal combustion engine as well as electric power. Below 15 mph (24 km/h) the car was electric powered and above it the conventional engine took over to take the vehicle to a maximum of around 35 mph (56 km/h). It is today considered a historic hybrid electric vehicle. The Woods Dual Power had a drive-train based on Roland Fend's U.S. patent number 1,303,870, using a clutch between the gas engine and the electric motor, allowing the engine to also drive the car through the armature shaft of the motor, which itself was connected to the driveshaft. Similar in many ways to todays Hybrids, It used both a gasoline engine and an electric motor to propel the wheels, had regenerative braking to recharge the less cumbersome batteries, and in some circumstances the car could charge the batteries while running on petrol.
Diolch am 89,050,960 o olygfeydd anhygoel, mae pob un yn cael ei werthfawrogi'n fawr.
Thanks for 89,050,960 amazing views, every one is greatly appreciated.
Shot 10.10.2021 at Bicester Scramble, Bicester, Oxon. Ref. 122-413
413 Woods Motor Co. (Gasoline Electric), Chcago - Badge and potted history
Woods Motor Co. (Gasoline Electric), Chcago - Badge and potted history
AUTOMOTIVE BADGES ALBUM
www.flickr.com/photos/45676495@N05/albums/72157631048301272
Woods Motor Vehicle Company was an American manufacturer of electric automobiles in Chicago, Illinois, between 1899 to 1919 The Woods Motor Vehicle Company was founded on the 28th of September 1899 by Clinton Edgar Woods with a capitalization of $10,000,000.The headquarters and showroom for Woods Motor Vehicle Company were located in an 1891 loft structure in Chicago's early Motor Row at the modern address of 1130 S. Wabash Avenue, Chicago (Chicago introduced its present address and street name system beginning in 1909. For the first 18 years Woods built conventional electric cars. Then in 1917, came the $ 2,650 Woods Dual Power with a 12hp Continental petrol engine supplementing its electric motor which was mounted where the gear box would normally go
The 1904 Woods Victoria was a carriage-styled model. It could seat 2 passengers and sold for US$1900. The same twin electric motors as the Stanhope were used, though a 4-speed transmission was fitted. The car weighed 2,700 pounds (1,200 kg). Forty-cell batteries were also used, with an 18 mph (29 km/h) top speed.
A CAR 80 YEARS AHEAD OF ITS TIME
At $2,700, The Dual Power Model 44 Coupe of 1911 to 1918 had a 4-cylinder internal combustion engine as well as electric power. Below 15 mph (24 km/h) the car was electric powered and above it the conventional engine took over to take the vehicle to a maximum of around 35 mph (56 km/h). It is today considered a historic hybrid electric vehicle. The Woods Dual Power had a drive-train based on Roland Fend's U.S. patent number 1,303,870, using a clutch between the gas engine and the electric motor, allowing the engine to also drive the car through the armature shaft of the motor, which itself was connected to the driveshaft. Similar in many ways to todays Hybrids, It used both a gasoline engine and an electric motor to propel the wheels, had regenerative braking to recharge the less cumbersome batteries, and in some circumstances the car could charge the batteries while running on petrol.
Diolch am 89,050,960 o olygfeydd anhygoel, mae pob un yn cael ei werthfawrogi'n fawr.
Thanks for 89,050,960 amazing views, every one is greatly appreciated.
Shot 10.10.2021 at Bicester Scramble, Bicester, Oxon. Ref. 122-413