Commerce Motor Car Company

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Commerce Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1911
resolution 1932
Seat Detroit , Michigan , USA
Branch Motor vehicles

Commerce Motor Car Company was an American manufacturer of motor vehicles . Another source uses the name Commerce Motor Truck Company .

Company history

The company was based in Detroit , Michigan . Commercial vehicles were built from 1911 . Only in 1922 were passenger cars in the range. The brand name was Commerce . Relay Motors took over the company in 1927 . Production ended in 1932.

There was no association with the American Machine Manufacturing Company , which manufactured automobiles with the same brand name.

vehicles

A commerce truck used as a motorhome, 1920s.

The main products were trucks and buses .

The 1922 passenger car range had a six-cylinder engine from the Continental Motors Company . It made 73 hp . The chassis had a wheelbase of 323 cm . The open touring car offered space for ten people. The original price was 2350 US dollars .

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. 366 (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. 328. (English)

Web link

Commons : Commerce Vehicles  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

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. 366 (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. 328. (English)