The Chandler Motor Company produced automobile

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s in the United States of America

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 during the 1910s and 1920s.

Corporate strategy

It was incorporated in 1913, with Frederick C. Chandler as President, headquartered and with its factory in Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland, Ohio

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. Chandler was a former designer for the Lozier Motor Company

Lozier

The Lozier Motor Company was a brass era producer of automobiles in the United States of America. The company produced luxury automobiles from 1900 to 1915, with a factory at 3703 Mack Avenue, Detroit, Michigan....

, a top end luxury automobile manufacturer. Chandler and several other Lozier executives left the company to form his company.

Chandler concentrated on producing a good quality motor-car within the price range of middle class

Middle class

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 Americans. Chandlers were well received in the marketplace.

Production

In 1920 ,Chandler had a line of 6 cars, ranging from $1995 to $3595. This grew to ten by 1922, ranging from $1495 to $2375. Like many other medium-price carmakers, in the middle 1920s Chandler introduced a lower-priced "companion car" called the Cleveland.

Chandler's peak year was 1927, when they sold 20,000 cars. Hopes for continued growth of the market led to overexpansion by the company the following year, which finished 1928 over half a million dollars

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 in debt.

In 1929, Chandler Motor Company was purchased by its expanding competitor Hupp Motor Works for its factory and manufacturing facilities, and the brand was discontinued.

Chandler, like most cars built before all-steel bodies became the industry standard in the mid-1930s, used bodies built with a metal

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 skin around a wood

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en frame (an "armored wood" frame). Due to the fabric roofs incorporated, after a few decades the wood tended to rot

ROT

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; because of this Chandlers have survived in smaller numbers than some other more popular automobiles of the era.

Production models

• Chandler Light Weight Model 19 Touring 1919
• Chandler Opera Coupe, 1919

• Chandler Metropolitan Sedan
  Chandler Metropolitan Sedan
  The Chandler Metropolitan Sedan was manufactured by the Chandler Motor Car Company of Cleveland, Ohio.-Chandler Metropolitan Sedan specifications :* Color – Two-tone brown or Sagebrush green* Seating Capacity – Five...
  
  , 1922