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Jordan
Vehicle Marque
A brand of automobiles based in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. The full company name is Jordan Motor Car Company. Vehicle names used by Jordan throughout its history include:
Playboy.
History
The following section is an excerpt from Wikipedia's Jordan Motor Car Company page on 21 May 2021, text available via the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
The Jordan Motor Car Company was founded in 1916 in Cleveland, Ohio by Edward S. "Ned" Jordan, a former advertising executive from Thomas B. Jeffery Company of Kenosha, Wisconsin. The factory produced what were known as "assembled cars" until 1931, using components from other manufacturers. Jordan cars were noted more for attractive styling than for advanced engineering, although they did bring their share of innovations to the marketplace. Not surprisingly, the company's advertising was often more original than the cars themselves. Said Jordan, "Cars are too dull and drab." He reasoned that since people dressed smartly, they were willing to drive "smart looking cars" as well. Today the company produces replica models of their defunct line.
Jordan Motor Car established its plant east of downtown Cleveland at 1070 East 152nd Street in the Collinwood neighborhood along the Nickel Plate Railroad tracks. This not only provided an ideal location for shipping the finished cars, but also provided Jordan with ready access to out of area suppliers. The plant was built in two stages; the first 30,000-square-foot (2,800 m2) building was begun on April 5, 1916 and finished some seven weeks later, while the second addition was completed within months of the first structure. In their first year of production (1916), Jordan sold over one thousand vehicles.
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| 11 November 1928 | Jordan Motor Car to Add Stock.
>The Jordan Motor Car Company will increase the common stock from 200,000 no-par shares to 300,000 shares. | Automotive News Briefs (text)
Publication: The New York Times
Topic: Jordan |
