Belmont Automobile Manufacturing Company

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Belmont Automobile Manufacturing Company
Belmont Motor Vehicle Company
Belmont Automobile Manufacturing Company
legal form Company
founding 1909
resolution 1910
Reason for dissolution Bankrupt
Seat New Haven , Connecticut , USA
Branch Automobiles

Belmont Automobile Manufacturing Company , temporarily Belmont Motor Vehicle Company , was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The Belmont Automobile Manufacturing Company was established in May 1909 in New Rochelle in the State of New York founded. C. Baxter Tiley of the Tilex-Pratt Company is named as an important person. In late summer the company moved to Castleton-on-Hudson , also in New York, and now traded as the Belmont Motor Vehicle Company . At that time Arthur C. Cheney became secretary and treasurer. In early 1910, the first company name was reintroduced and the headquarters moved to New Haven , Connecticut . The production of automobiles ran from 1909 to 1910. The brand name was Belmont . Bankruptcy followed in August 1910 .

There was no association with the Belmont Electric Automobile Company , which used the same brand name.

vehicles

The offer was the Thirty , English for 30. It had a four-cylinder engine with 30 hp . The chassis had a wheelbase of 279 cm . The Model A was a four-seat tonneau and the Model B was a five-seat touring car .

Plans for a Liberty model were no longer implemented.

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. 1115 (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. 145. (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. 115 (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. 145. (English)