Coggswell Motor Car Company

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Coggswell Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1910
resolution 1911
Seat Grand Rapids , Michigan , USA
management H. Coggswell
Number of employees 75
Branch Automobiles

Coggswell Motor Car Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company existed from 1910 to 1911 in Grand Rapids , Michigan . H. Coggswell directed it. He employed 75 people. At the same time, he was the designer of the vehicles that were marketed as Coggswell . The number of vehicles produced remained small.

Local patriotism was highlighted in the advertisement : a Grand Rapids vehicle designed by a Grand Rapids man, assembled by Grand Rapids workers, bearing a Grand Rapids name, from a factory that only employs Grand Rapids men.

vehicles

Only the model 35 was on offer . A four-cylinder engine with 35 HP power drove the rear axle. The OHC valve control was striking . A touring car has been handed down as a structure .

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. 349 (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. 321. (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. 349 (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. 321. (English)