Bowman Automobile Company

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Bowman Automobile Company
legal form Company
founding 1902
resolution 1910
Seat New York City , New York , USA
management Sydney B. Bowman
Branch Automobiles

Bowman Automobile Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Sydney B. Bowman manufactured bicycles at his Sydney B. Bowman Cycle Company in New York City between 1899 and 1904 . In 1902 he also founded the Bowman Automobile Company in the same town as a car dealer. He imported vehicles from Établissements Clément-Bayard . In 1902 he marketed some vehicles as a Bowman . He also produced a racing car on behalf of a customer . Import ended in 1910.

There was no association with the Bowman engineering company and the Bowman Motor Car Company , which used the same brand name.

vehicles

Small runabouts were on offer . Their engines developed 6 hp . The original price was 800 US dollars .

The racing car had an engine with 70 hp. NW Schlater designed it. The client was HR Morse.

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. 140 (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. 140 (English).