Bournonville Motors Company

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Bournonville Motors Company
legal form Company
founding 1921
resolution 1923
Seat Hoboken , New Jersey , USA
management Eugene Bournonville
Branch Automobiles

Bournonville Motors Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Eugene Bournonville was from Belgium but lived in the USA for a long time. He founded the company in Hoboken , New Jersey , in 1921 . He started with the production of automobiles. The brand name was Rotary . The first vehicle was presented at the New York Automobile Show in November 1921 . Production ended in 1923. In total, only a few vehicles were built.

There was no association with the Rotary Motor Vehicle Company , which used the same brand name a few years earlier.

vehicles

The vehicles had a self-developed engine with a special valve control . It was a six-cylinder engine with a capacity of around 5 liters and an output of 60 hp . Many parts were bought in. These included the frame of Parish & Bingham , the power transmission from Brown-Lipe , clutch from Borg & Beck and axes of Columbia .

The chassis had a wheelbase of 330 cm . One vehicle received a self-made body as an open touring car with space for seven people. The original price was 6,000 in the first year US dollar and last year dollars 3800th

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. 1311 (English).
  • George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1370-1371 (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. 1311 (English).
  2. ↑ George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1370-1371 (English).