Atlantic Electric Vehicle Company

Atlantic Vehicle Company Atlantic Electric Vehicle Company
legal form	Company
founding	1912
resolution	1921
Seat	Newark , New Jersey , USA
Branch	Motor vehicles

Atlantic Electric Vehicle Company , previously Atlantic Vehicle Company , was an American manufacturer of motor vehicles .

Company history

The company was founded in 1912 and renamed in 1915. The seat was in Newark , New Jersey . Mainly it manufactured trucks . Passenger cars and taxis were also built between 1912 and 1914 . All vehicles were marketed as Atlantic . In 1921 the company was dissolved.

vehicles

The commercial vehicles had electric drive . In the beginning it was 3 to 6 tonne trucks that had chain drives. Smaller models were added later that had a cardan shaft .

The first development of a car may have remained a prototype . The taxi with an electric motor was not very successful.

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. 68 (English).
• Halwart Schrader , Jan P. Norbye: The truck lexicon. All brands 1900 to today. Schrader Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-613-01837-3 , p. 14.

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. 68 (English).