American Motor Company (Massachusetts)

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American Motor Company
legal form Company
founding 1905
resolution between 1913 and 1920
Seat Brockton , Massachusetts , USA
Branch Motor vehicles

American Motor Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles from Massachusetts .

Company history

The company was founded in Brockton in 1905 . Before that there were two separate companies. One was the Motor Cycle Manufacturing Company of the Marsh brothers, who started manufacturing automobiles with their Marsh Motor Carriage Company as early as 1899 . The second company was the Waltham Development Company of Charles Herman Metz , who produced racing motorcycles after leaving the Waltham Manufacturing Company .

A few passenger cars were built in 1905 . They were marketed as Marsh . In 1905 or 1906 the production of motorcycles began . The brand name was MM , short for Marsh-Metz . In addition, Arrow , Dixie Flyer , Haverford , National and Peerless called. Both the Marsh brothers and Metz left the company after a few years. The departure from Metz was reported on January 15, 1909.

It is not known when the company was dissolved. 1913, around 1914, 1915 and 1920 are mentioned.

There was no connection to the American Motor Company of the same name from the state of New York .

vehicles

Automobiles

Only one model was on offer. It had an air-cooled two-cylinder engine with 10 hp . It was mounted in the front of the vehicle and drove the rear axle. The chassis had a wheelbase of 203 cm and a track width of 137 cm . The structure was an open runabout with two seats. It was steered with a steering wheel from the right seat. The vehicle weighed around 356 kg. The original price was 750 US dollars . According to an advertisement, the cylinder bore and piston stroke were each 4 inches . This corresponds to 101.6 mm and results in a displacement of 1647 cm³ . The guaranteed maximum speed was 64 km / h.

motorcycles

The first motorcycles had V2 engines with a 45 degree cylinder angle. From 1908, 90 degree cylinder angles have been handed down. In addition, single-cylinder engines are mentioned, some of which came from the ER Thomas Motor Car Company .

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. 931-932 (English).
  • George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 2: G-O . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 959 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c 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. 931-932 (English).
  2. ↑ George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 2: G-O . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 959 (English).
  3. ↑ Scientific American, May 24, 1902 (PDF; accessed October 3, 2018)
  4. ^ Advertisement of the Motor Cycle Manufacturing Company dated 1903 (English, accessed October 3, 2018)
  5. ↑ a b c d Roger Hicks: The international encyclopedia. Motorcycles. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-613-02660-5 , p. 327 and p. 355.
  6. ↑ a b Erwin Tragatsch: All motorcycles. 1894 until today. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-87943-410-7 , p. 260 and p. 280.
  7. ↑ a b c d S. Ewald: Encyclopedia of the motorcycle. Bechtermünz Verlag, Augsburg 1999, ISBN 3-8289-5364-6 , p. 315 and p. 330.
  8. ↑ a b Metz Leaves American Motor Company (accessed October 3, 2018)
  9. ↑ a b 1913 Dixie Flyer Special (English, accessed October 3, 2018)
  10. ↑ a b 1904 Marsh (English, accessed October 3, 2018)
  11. ↑ Advertisement for the car (English, accessed on October 3, 2018)