AF Chase

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AF Chase
legal form
founding 1907
resolution 1909
Seat Minneapolis , Minnesota , USA
management AF Chase
Branch Automobiles

AF Chase was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

AF Chase had sold Maxwell Motor Company vehicles in Chicago . In 1907 he moved back to his hometown of Minneapolis , Minnesota . There he founded the company that bore his name. First he sold vehicles from the Mitchell Motors Company . In March 1909 the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Chase . He got the engines from a local steam engine manufacturer and the superstructures from coachbuilders in Minneapolis. The assembly took place in his workshop. Production ended in the same year.

There was no association with the Chase Motor Truck Company , which also marketed vehicles as Chase .

vehicles

The only model was a high wheeler . With the large solid rubber tires , it was well suited for the bad roads of the time. The bodies were open. An air-cooled two-cylinder engine propelled the vehicles. The original price was 550 US dollars .

literature

  • Beverly Rae Kimes, Henry Austin Clark Jr .: Standard catalog of American Cars. 1805-1942. Digital edition . 3. Edition. Krause Publications, Iola 2013, ISBN 978-1-4402-3778-2 , pp. 279 (English).
  • Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry. McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 0-7864-0972-X , p. 64. (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Beverly Rae Kimes, Henry Austin Clark Jr .: Standard catalog of American Cars. 1805-1942. Digital edition . 3. Edition. Krause Publications, Iola 2013, ISBN 978-1-4402-3778-2 , pp. 279 (English).
  2. ↑ Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry. McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 0-7864-0972-X , p. 64. (English)