Dragon Motors Corporation

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Dragon Motors Corporation
legal form Corporation
founding 1920
resolution 1921
Reason for dissolution Bankrupt
Seat Chicago , Illinois , USA
Branch Automobiles

Dragon Motors Corporation was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Hyman Edelman, Herman Neidick and Joseph Stein founded the company in July 1920. The company was based in Chicago , Illinois . A work from the Selig Polyscope Company was acquired. In the same year the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Dragon . The vehicles have been called the most elegant cars in America . Production plans amounted to one vehicle a day. In January 1921, production ended due to government pressure. In the summer of 1921, the owners were charged with fraud and later convicted. Bankruptcy followed in September 1921 .

A total of 13 vehicles were built.

There was no connection to the Dragon Motor Company , which years earlier also offered cars as Dragon .

vehicles

Only one model was on offer. It was similar to the Revere Motor Company vehicles . The vehicles were powered by a four-cylinder engine with an output of 58 hp . The chassis had a 305 cm wheelbase . A five-seater touring car , a four-seater Victoria and a two-seater roadster called Pup were available as superstructures .

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. 492 (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 , pp. 456-457 (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. 492 (English).
  2. ↑ George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 456-457 (English).