| 词条 | Worthington Automobile Company |
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| name = Worthington Automobile Company | logo = | logo_caption = | image = Worthington and Berg Automobile ad - 1904.jpg | image_caption = 1904 advertisement from Horseless Age magazine | trading_name = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | type = | traded_as = | industry = | genre = | fate = | predecessor = | successor = | foundation = 1904 | founder = | defunct = 1905 | location_city = | location_country = | locations = | area_served = | key_people = | products = | production = | services = | revenue = | operating_income = | net_income = | aum = | assets = | equity = | owner = | num_employees = | parent = | divisions = | subsid = | homepage = | footnotes = | intl = }} The Worthington Automobile Company was a short-lived automobile manufacturer in the United States that made automobiles between 1904 and 1905. The company was founded by Charles Campbell Worthington, formerly head of the Worthington Pump and Machinery Corporation.{{sfn|Maurer|1999|p=1}} After retiring from that position, he designed and built six Worthington Meteor steam automobiles.{{sfn|Kurtz|2002|p=10}} He then became interested in gasoline engines and organized the Worthington Automobile Company. This company built several types of pleasure car.{{sfn|Maurer|1999|p=1}} Worthington was financed by the Vanderbilt fortune.{{sfn|Illustration House|2000}} In 1904 Horseless Age Magazine reported that the leaders of the Worthington Automobile Company, had purchased the rights and property of the Berg Automobile Company. The Berg company would retain its name. The Worthington company would sell the 18-horsepower Berg under the name of the Meteor. A new garage was being built between West 49th and 50th streets. Charles C. Worthington was president of the company and H. Rossiter Worthington was secretary and treasurer.{{sfn|Horseless Age Magazine 1904}} In August 1904 the Worthington Automobile Company entered their Meteor and Berg cars in the Long Branch, New Jersey, automobile races, and in the five-mile pick up race finished first and second.{{sfn|What's Going On in Automobile Circles 1904}} The 1904 Worthington Bollee had a four-cylinder motor with an average of 24 hp rising to 30 hp at maximum rpm.{{sfn|Phillips|2011|p=682}} The Bollee was from a French design (Léon Bollée Automobiles) and the Berg was German.{{sfn|Kurtz|2002|p=10}} In 1905 Berg cars were built by Worthington, which was also building its first Meteor cars.{{sfn|Phillips|2011|p=93}} The Meteor, built between 1905 and 1906, was a five-seat tonneau with an 18 hp engine in an aluminum motor block rated between 200 and 1,000 rpm.{{sfn|Phillips|2011|p=421}} By the end of 1905 the Berg-Worthington collaboration had failed.{{sfn|Illustration House|2000}} Later Worthington created a country resort and golf course at Shawnee-on-Delaware.{{sfn|Maurer|1999|p=1}} He invented a gang lawnmower to maintain the greens, and founded the Shawnee Mower Company to build the mowers. This company remained in business until around 1959.{{sfn|Maurer|1999|p=2}} ReferencesCitationsSources{{refbegin}}
|journal=Horseless Age Magazine|title=News Item|year=1904|accessdate=2013-10-27|publisher=Early American Automobiles}}
|author=Illustration House|date=6 May 2000|title=Arthur T. Merrick Advertisement|accessdate=2013-10-27}}
|last=Kurtz|first=Dr. Kent|title=DOC'S DUGOUT - An Inning From Our Past |journal=Sports Turf Manager |date=September–October 2002}}
|last=Maurer|first=Joe |journal=Gas Engine Magazine|publisher=Ogden Publications, Inc. |url=http://www.gasenginemagazine.com/tractors/c-c-worthington-and-the-worthington-mower.aspx?PageId=1#ArticleContent|accessdate=2013-10-26}}
|last=Phillips|first=Lou|title=Cars|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XLS3UagARgwC&pg=PA93|accessdate=2013-10-27 |date=2011-04-11|publisher=Xlibris Corporation|isbn=978-1-4568-9294-4}}
|title=What's Going On in Automobile Circles - Horse and Carriage Dealers|accessdate=2013-10-27 |journal=The Sun (New York) |date=21 August 1904|page= 7}}{{refend}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Worthington Automobile Company}} 1 : Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of the United States |
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