Boisselot Automobile and Special Gasoline Motor Company

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Boisselot Automobile and Special Gasoline Motor Company
legal form Company
founding 1901
resolution 1901
Seat Jersey City , New Jersey , USA
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The Boisselot Automobile and Special Gasoline Motor Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded in 1901 in Jersey City , New Jersey . It made engines and automobiles. The brand name was Boisselot . Production ended in the same year.

The Holland Automobile Company from the same city is considered the successor company.

Products

One offer was a motor with 0.25 hp . With this and the necessary accessories, buyers could motorize a bicycle . The company's hope was that these buyers would later also buy complete vehicles.

There was a choice of two passenger cars . The Pearl model had a water-cooled engine with 3.75 hp. The open two-seater cost 600 US dollars . The Boisselot had a 6 hp engine. The voiturette offered space for three to four people. It was twice as expensive.

There were plans to take part in the 1901 Buffalo Endurance Run car race .

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. 135 (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. 178. (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. 135 (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. 178. (English)