Bristol Motor Car Company

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Bristol Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1902
resolution 1903
Seat Bristol , Connecticut , USA
management Frederick Newton Manross
Branch Automobiles

Bristol Motor Car Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Frederick Newton Manross founded the company in Bristol , Connecticut , in 1902 . Frederick A. Law was its designer. They manufactured a vehicle in 1902 and sold the rights to the Electric Vehicle Company . This was followed by a new draft. Series production of automobiles began in March 1903. The brand name was Bristol . On May 21, 1903, it was announced that it merged with the American Hardware Corporation . In 1904 the production and marketing of Bristol automobiles ended.

Manross and Law founded the Law Auto Manufacturing Company in 1904 .

vehicles

The only production model had an air-cooled single-cylinder engine with 8 hp . It drove the rear axle via a planetary gear . The wheels were 30 inches high.

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. 150 (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. 194. (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. 150 (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. 194. (English)