Crown Motor Vehicle Company

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Crown Motor Vehicle Company
legal form Company
founding 1908
resolution 1910
Reason for dissolution Acquisition by Graves & Congdon
Seat Amesbury , Massachusetts , USA
management WA Shafer
Branch Automobiles

Crown Motor Vehicle Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded in Amesbury , Massachusetts in early 1908 . WA Shafer was President, previously a Bartholomew Company vehicle dealer . JR Graves was secretary and Frank Dodge was treasurer. The production of automobiles took place at the Graves & Congdon plant in the same location. The brand name was Crown . Shafer left in 1910. Then Graves & Congdon took over the company. The vehicles were then unofficially called Graves & Congdon . Production ended in 1910.

There were no affiliations with the Detroit Auto Vehicle Company and the Crown Motor Car Company , which used the same brand name.

vehicles

Highwheelers were on offer . What all vehicles had in common was the air-cooled two-cylinder engine with 12 hp . It was mounted under the seat and drove the rear axle via chains. The chassis usually had 188 cm wheelbase , the Special 203 cm wheelbase. The superstructures were two-seat runabouts .

Model overview

year model execution cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1908-1909 Model A High wheel 2 12 188 Runabout
1908-1909 Model A Special 2 12 203 Runabout
1910 Model A High wheel 2 12 188 Runabout

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. 398 (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. 353. (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. 398 (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. 353. (English)