Breese, Lawrence, Moulton Motor Car and Equipment Company

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Breese, Lawrence, Moulton Motor Car and Equipment Company
legal form Company
founding 1906
resolution 1907
Reason for dissolution insolvency
Seat Brooklyn , New York , USA
management
  • Sidney S. Breese
  • Charles I. Lawrence
  • Andrew Moulton
Branch Automobiles

BLM from 1906

Breese, Lawrence, Moulton Motor Car and Equipment Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles . Another source uses the notation Breese, Lawrence & Moulton Motor Car & Equipment Company .

prehistory

Sidney S. Breese and Charles I. Lawrence made a prototype in Brooklyn , New York City , in 1905 . It was called Breese & Lawrence .

Company history

Breese and Lawrence founded the Brooklyn company with Andrew Moulton in 1906. In August 1906 a racing car was announced. They started with the production of automobiles. The brand name was BLM , which corresponded to the first letters of their last names. In September 1907, plans for the production of 250 vehicles were announced. But already in December 1907 the bankruptcy followed .

Lawrence and Moulton started manufacturing vehicles again in their new company LM in Paris in 1913 .

vehicles

The first model was a racing car. It was based on the design from 1905. The engine developed 85 hp . The original price of $ 12,000 was very high. The market success remained low.

The Pirate Runabout sports car followed in early 1907 . The engine came from Mutel in France and made 24 hp. It drove the rear axle via a cardan shaft . With the standard ratio, a top speed of 88 km / h was specified, with a special ratio even 112 km / h.

There was also the four . It was designed to be more comfortable and only available as a landaulet . The engine output of the four-cylinder engine was 16 hp. The chassis had a wheelbase of 249 cm .

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. 132-133 (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. 170. (English)

Web links

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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. 132-133 (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. 170. (English)