De La Vergne Machine Company

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De La Vergne Refrigerating Machine Company
De La Vergne Machine Company
legal form Company
founding 1880
resolution 1917
Reason for dissolution takeover
Seat New York City , New York , USA
Branch Motor vehicles

De La Vergne Machine Company , originally De La Vergne Refrigerating Machine Company , was an American company.

Company history

The company was founded on February 14, 1880 in New York City . It was active in the field of cooling machines, gasoline engines , diesel engines and steam engines . 1895, the company began with a German Benz at the Chicago Times-Herald contest part. In the same year, the company began selling its own automobiles and motorcycles under the direction of John Chester De La Vergne . The brand name was De La Vergne . Some of the production took place at both the Hincks & Johnson Company and Valentine, Linn & Son . Buyers were John Jacob Astor, William Waldorf Astor , Edwin Gould, George Gould, William Havemeyer, Frederick Pabst , Jacob Rupert and William Rockefeller . With the death of John Chester De La Vergne in May 1896, the vehicle business was given up.

In 1897 the name was changed to De La Vergne Machine Company . The William Cramp & Sons Ship & Engine Building Company took over the company in 1917.

vehicles

Four special vehicles have survived. They were similar to the Benz models. One and two-cylinder engines have been handed down. The superstructures were called drag and trap . They were open and could accommodate four or six people.

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. 425 (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. 416 (English).

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c 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. 425 (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. 416. (English)
  3. ↑ a b c De La Vergne Machine Co. (accessed December 23, 2017)