Aristos Company

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Aristos Company
legal form Company
founding 1912 or earlier
resolution 1915
Reason for dissolution insolvency
Seat New York City , New York , USA
Branch Automobiles

Aristos Company was an American company in the automotive industry .

Company history

The company was based in New York City . Initially, it manufactured accessories for vehicles. One product was reported from 1912. In 1914 a license was acquired for a special engine that Martin Fischer had developed from Fischer-Wagen . Automobile production began that year, assisted by the Palmer & Singer Manufacturing Company . The brand name was Mondex Magic . This was a combination of the word Mondex , which many products of the Aristos Company carried, and the engine name Magic . Production ended in 1915. In the same year the company went bankrupt .

Products

The Mondex Shock Preventer can be traced back to 1912. In addition, there was a Mondex helix mixer from around 1913 that had something to do with the carburetor . A polish is also mentioned.

The passenger car had six-cylinder engines . It was available in two sizes. The smaller one had 85.725 mm bore , 120.65 mm stroke , 4178 cm³ displacement and 40 hp . The larger made 60 hp from 6950 cm³ displacement, which resulted from 101.6 mm bore and 142.875 mm stroke. The chassis had a wheelbase of 340 cm for the smaller model and 356 cm for the larger model. Both were bodied as touring cars .

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. 991 (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. 1054 (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. 991 (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. 1054 (English).