Armac Motor Company

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Armac Motorcycle Company
Armac Motor Company
legal form Company
founding 1903
resolution 1908
Seat Chicago , Illinois , USA
management Archie McCullen
Branch Motor vehicles

Armac Motor Company , previously Armac Motorcycle Company , was an American manufacturer of motor vehicles .

Company history

Archie McCullen founded the Armac Motorcycle Company in Saint Paul , Minnesota in 1903 to manufacture motorcycles . On August 15, 1905, he moved to Chicago , Illinois and changed the company name to Armac Motor Company . Automobile production began here . The brand name was Armac . In 1906 the production of cars and in 1908 the motorcycle production ended.

vehicles

On offer were motorcycles, sidecars and attachments to convert motorcycles into forecars .

The only four-wheeled vehicle was an open two-seat runabout . A separate motor with 6 HP power drove the rear axle via belts.

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. 64 (English).
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 1: A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 71. (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. 64 (English).
  2. ↑ George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 71. (English)