Production chronology1899–1901
Sourced production or model lifecycle range used by the main catalog timeline.
curated ↗3 years
← Worth
Worth / Model record
WorthDog Cart
Production1899–1901
Recorded originUnited States
ClassOpen dog-cart passenger automobile
Worth-badged passenger car produced by Chicago Motor Vehicle Company and represented by the Louwman Museum survivor. William O. Worth's patented pressed-steel chassis/suspension work, shaft (cardan) drive and an early steering damper distinguished the design. Patent chronology supports an approximately 1899 date for the survivor, but no complete serial ledger or annual specification survives.
Chronology ledger
Dates with their meaning intact
Record depth — Documented
How this is measured → This record contains useful sourced evidence, but it does not yet meet the reference-ready standard. Still needed: attributed imagery. Fields we cannot source stay empty rather than guessed.
Research notes
Chicago Motor Vehicle Company reportedly built about 15 Worth passenger cars in total during 1899–1901; no body-style split survives and two Worth cars are known to survive.