Dey-Griswold & Company

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Dey-Griswold & Company
legal form Company
founding 1895
resolution 1898
Seat New York City , New York , USA
management Harry E. Dey
Branch Automobiles

Dey-Griswold & Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Harry E. Dey founded the company in New York City in 1895 . He made some automobiles in collaboration with the Pawtucket Motor Carriage Company . The brand name was Dey-Griswold . Production ended in 1898.

Dey manufactured vehicles again from 1915 to 1917 in the Dey Electric Corporation .

vehicles

Electric cars were on offer . They had a special type of power transmission, which, however, did not work. It is considered the world's oldest torque converter . An illustration shows an open two-seater Phaeton with a steering lever.

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. 452 (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. 433 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 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. 452 (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. 433 (English).