Campbell Motor Car Company

Campbell Motor Car Company
legal form	Company
founding	1918
resolution	1919
Reason for dissolution	insolvency
Seat	Kingston , New York , USA
management	Theodore A. Campbell George N. Campbell
Branch	Automobiles

Campbell Motor Car Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Theodore A. and George N. Campbell were in connection with the 1917 disbanded Emerson Motors Company . They founded their own company in Kingston , New York , in 1918 . They continued the production of automobiles. The brand name was now Campbell . Bankruptcy began in May 1919 . In total, only a few vehicles were built.

vehicles

The only model had a four-cylinder engine with 22 hp. The chassis had a wheelbase of 279 cm . An open touring car made the only body style. The car cost 835 US dollars and was too expensive. For comparison: The new price of the Emerson was only 395 dollars last year. The Ford Model T cost $ 525 as a touring car, but had a slightly weaker engine and was shorter.

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. 251 (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. 244. (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. 251 (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. 244. (English)