Atlas Motor Car Company

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Atlas Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1905
resolution 1913
Reason for dissolution Bankrupt
Seat Springfield , Massachusetts , USA
management Harry A. Knox
Branch Automobiles

The Atlas Motor Car Company was an automobile manufacturer from the United States .

Company history

Harry A. Knox , a well-known automobile pioneer and founder of the Knox Automobile Company , set up a new production facility in 1905 opposite his former company in Springfield , Massachusetts , which he had left in the dispute in 1904. After he was prohibited by a court from building trucks there under his name, he established the company as the Atlas Motor Car Company . Commercial vehicle production began in 1905 . From 1907 he manufactured passenger cars that were marketed as Atlas . In 1912 the brand name changed to Atlas-Knight . Bankruptcy followed in 1913 .

vehicles

Depending on the version , the passenger car had two , three or four-cylinder engines , the specialty of which was the two-stroke engine design . In 1912 the company manufactured four-cylinder valve engines under license from Knight .

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).
  • 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. 92. (English)

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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).
  2. ↑ George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 92. (English)