CT Silver Motor Company

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CT Silver Motor Company
legal form Company
founding 1914
resolution 1919
Seat New York City , New York , USA
management Conover Thomas Silver
Branch Automobiles

CT Silver Motor Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Conover Thomas Silver was a car salesman. Initially he was based in Brooklyn and sold Buick . In 1913 he was a dealer for Willys-Overland and Peerless in the New York area. In January 1914, he bought a building on Broadway in New York City . It was there that he ran the company. In addition to trading, individual automobiles were also created. The brand name was Silver , often with an addition. In August 1916 the trade with Chalmers was added and in 1917 Apperson and Kissel . Production ended in 1919. Silver gave up the business.

vehicles

Silver designed special bodies on the chassis of the brands he sold.

The Silver Knight was created in 1914 based on a Willys Knight . This was followed by a silver peerless . The Silver Overland had space for six people and cost 2200 US dollars .

In 1918 the Silver Apperson came on the market. It was presented and highly acclaimed at the New York Automobile Show . Apperson adopted some design elements for its vehicles.

Silver-Kissel or Kissel Silver Special existed from 1918 to 1919.

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. 1348 (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. 1450 (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. 1348 (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. 1450 (English).