Franco-American Automobile Company

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Franco-American Automobile Company
legal form Company
founding 1902
resolution 1902
Seat Marion , New Jersey , USA
management Richard Currier
Branch Automobiles

Franco-American Automobile Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Richard Currier bought the remains of the Automobile Company of America at auction in September 1902 , but also its liabilities. He then hastily started a new company in Marion , New Jersey . He intended to manufacture vehicles in the plant under a license from Rochet-Schneider and market them as Pedro . But it did not get to that. Instead, he completed some unfinished vehicles from the factory he had taken over. The brand name was Franco-American . Production ended in November of the same year. The debt was too great.

The Pan-American Motor Company is named as the successor.

There was no association with the Franco-American Car Company , which used the same brand name in 1907.

vehicles

The vehicles corresponded to a model of the gas mobile . They were bodied as a Stanhope . This leads to the conclusion that they had three cylinder engines , because all Stanhopes of the gas mobile had three cylinder engines.

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. 604 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d 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. 604 (English).
  2. ↑ Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry . McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864-0972-3 , pp. 119 (English).