Carlson Motor Vehicle Company

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Carlson Motor Vehicle Company
legal form Company
founding 1904
resolution 1910
Seat Brooklyn , New York , USA
management Charles A. Carlson
Branch Motor vehicles

Carlson Motor Vehicle Company was an American manufacturer of motor vehicles .

Company history

Charles A. Carlson had connections with the Winton Motor Carriage Company . In the summer of 1903 he founded an auto repair shop and in January 1904 the Carlson Motor Vehicle Company in Brooklyn , New York . Production of passenger cars and commercial vehicles began in 1904 . The brand name was Carlson . In 1904 the production of cars ended and in 1910 the production of trucks.

vehicles

The only car model had a four-cylinder four - stroke engine with 20 hp . The chassis had a 229 cm wheelbase . The only known body shape was an open runabout

The commercial vehicles also had a wheelbase of 229 cm at least in 1904.

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. 255 (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. 248. (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. 255 (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. 248. (English)