Register
Australian and New Zealand
HUPMOBILE
Total Production
Hupmobiles in Australia and New Zealand
Model 20 1909 - 13 15,780  approx. Model 32 1912 - 15 25,739 Model K 1914 - 15 6,979 Model N 1915 - 17 27,514 Model R 1917 - 25 178,763 Model E 1925 - 28 32,459 Model A 1926 - 31 164,640 Model M 1928 - 29 22,125 Model S 1930 - 31 26,323 Model C 1930 - 32 9,930 Model H 1930 - 32 3,468 Model L 1931 - 32 8,036 Model U 1930 - 32 690 Model B 1932 - 33 4,991 Model F 1932 - 34 4,962 Model I 1932 - 34 1,453 Model K 1933 - 34 5,962 Model W 1934 - 35 4,985 Model J 1934 - 35 2,488 Model T 1934 - 35 1,501 Model D 1935 - 36 6,274 Model O 1935 - 36 324 Model N 1936 - 37 262 Model G 1936 - 37 1,749 Model E 1938 - 39 Model H 1938 - 39 Model R (Skylark) 1939 - 41 354 TOTAL 561,464
The Hupmobile was first advertised for sale in Sydney, Australia in February 1910, barely twelve months after its first production in February 1909 when it was first shown at the Detroit Automobile Show. Robert Craig Hupp (President), his brother Louis Gorham Hupp (Secretary/treasurer), and Charles D Hastings (Vice President) founded the company and produced the prototype which produced the early orders.  R.C. Hupp had started with Olds Motor Works in 1902, Ford in 1906-7, and the Regal Motor Car Company in 1907-8 before starting Hupmobile in November 1908. After its introduction the following February, 500 were produced, with 5,340 vehicles in 1910. By June 1910 the Australian agent was Phizackerley's in Elizabeth Street and Mr. E.G. Eagar, representing the Hupp Motor Company of Detroit, Michigan, who placed the agency with Mr Phizackerley, showed off the 20 HP model to the Sydney press in July 1910. R.C. Hupp himself  left the Company in November 1911, and was involved in Hupp-Yeats 1911-1919, R.C.H. 1912-1915, Monarch 1913-1916, and Emerson in 1917, none of which lasted very long. Agencies throughout Australia and New Zealand took up Hupmobile sales from 1910 and it was well received and strongly supported. Meanwhile under Hastings and others, Hupmobile continued manufacturing robust and reliable motor vehicles until differences with executives and the depression took its toll, and while it suffered financially and made its last cars in 1941, the Hupp Company made parts during WWII and in 1946 as the Hupp Corporation, and later as a subsidiary of Gibson and Easy and later with White Industries making home appliances. The name Hupp was dropped in the late 1990s. The Australian and New Zealand Hupmobile Register explores the Hupmobile story and it’s agents particularly in both these countries with articles, registration records, photographs and more. Some of the production figures at left are estimates based on Serial Number ranges and it is not clear all were made in those ranges.
Robert Craig Hupp founder Isaac Phizackerley Sydney Agent
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