Welcome to the Hudson Family Photo Album - a web site dedicated to the fine cars built by the Hudson Motor Car Company. Our aim is to show you factory and other photos from the extensive Carl Weber Collection and members cars and pictures from other sources. We encourage viewers who have Hudson, Essex or Terraplane photos of any type to send them to us for this web site. We hope you will enjoy browsing thru our little effort and visit some of the links we are working on - such as a site for Hudson technical info featuring manufacturers numbers for electrical and fuel system equipment and serial number listings, (from our Hudson, Essex, Terraplane General Specifications Handbook) and, other tech sites we have built or are building - use the Hudson Tech Info Link to the left. 

 The Hudson Motor Car Company began production with the Model 20 which rolled off the production line on July 3, 1909.  For the next 45 years, until the merger with Nash Motors to form American Motors, Hudson built many fine automobiles.
  In 1918 a seperate division was formed to build the Essex, a low priced companion to the Hudson.  In 1929 Essex reached it's peak with 191,328 units shipped.  Hudson shipped 7,179 units
  Hudson introduced a commercial model, the Dover, in 1929 based on the Essex chassis and rated at 3/4 ton. This was produced only in 1929 - after which the vehicle became an Essex commercial, but very few models were produced.
  July 1932 saw the introduction of the Terraplane, to replace the Essex.  1932 saw Essex, Essex-Terraplane (continued to 1933) and Terraplane models. In 1934 the car became simply Terraplane until 1938 when it was changed again to Hudson-Terraplane.  This was to be the last year for the Terraplane.  It was replaced by the Hudson '112' model, so named for it's wheelbase. This model only lasted for two years.
  From 1940 thru 1954 only Hudsons were produced. In 1954 the aggressive marketing campaigns of the early 50's by Ford and Chevrolet, battling for first place, plus shortsighted company policies had Hudson nearly out of business, along with most of the surviving independents. A merger was made between Nash Motors and Hudson, forming American Motors.
  The Hudson nameplate continued for only three more years, finally being dropped in 1957, when only 1,345 units were shipped.

NOTE: We are in the process of transferring most of our technical web sites to a new site.  The idea is to put everything on one site for your convienence.  The new site is at:

 Hudson Motor Cars Technical Web Site

NOTE:  While we encourage the use of the message board on this page, members may find answers much quicker by using the Hudson bulletin board @

http://www.classiccar.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=13

  You do have to register, but that's not a problem.   Messages posted on these pages will be deleted after 6 months to conserve space.