Courier Motor Company

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Courier Motor Company
legal form Company
founding 1905
resolution 1905
Seat Stoneham , Massachusetts , USA
management Elliott C. Lee
Branch Automobiles

Courier Motor Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Elliott C. Lee was President of the American Automobile Association . He founded the company in 1905 and took over the Phelps Motor Vehicle Company . The seat was in Stoneham , Massachusetts . He continued the production of automobiles that were marketed as Courier . Production ended in December 1905.

The Shawmut Motor Company took over the plant.

vehicles

The only model was the same as the last Phelps model. It had a three-cylinder engine with 24 hp . The chassis had a wheelbase of 269 ​​cm . The open touring car offered space for five people.

A model with a four-cylinder engine was in the catalog, but was probably no longer manufactured.

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. 382 and p. 1174 (English).
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 3: P – Z. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 1221. (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. 382 and p. 1174 (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. 1221. (English)