Back Bay Cycle & Motor Company

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Back Bay Cycle & Motor Company
legal form Company
founding 1899
resolution 1900
Seat Boston , Massachusetts , USA
management WT McCullough
Branch Automobiles

Back Bay Cycle & Motor Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles . Another source states WT McCullough Automobile Company .

Company history

The company was founded in Boston , Massachusetts in 1899 . WT McCullough was the owner. He manufactured a few automobiles between 1899 and 1900. The brand name was McCullough . In total, only a few vehicles were built.

McCullough then sold the patent rights to his vehicles to the United States Motor Vehicle Company .

vehicles

The first prototype from early 1899 had two two- cylinder engines , each driving a rear wheel via a chain.

This was followed by vehicles with a single two-cylinder engine producing 4.5 hp .

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. 947 (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. 988 (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. 947 (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. 988 (English).
  3. ↑ Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry . McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864-0972-3 , pp. 192 (English).