Church Motor Car Company

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Church Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1913
resolution 1914
Seat Chicago , Illinois , USA
Branch Automobiles

Church Motor Car Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded in 1913 in Chicago , Illinois . In the same year the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Church Pneumatic . Production ended in 1914.

vehicles

The only model was called the Mackenzie Model . It was powered by a four-cylinder engine with 90 hp . The chassis had a wheelbase of 335 cm . The vehicles were bodied as open touring cars . The original price was 2500 US dollars .

The company advertised that a special pneumatic system made many accessories unnecessary. How exactly this worked remained unclear.

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. 334 (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. 292. (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. 334 (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. 292. (English)