General Vehicle Company

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General Vehicle Company
legal form Company
founding 1907
resolution 1920
Seat Long Island City , New York , USA
Branch Motor vehicles

General Vehicle Company was an American manufacturer of motor vehicles .

Company history

The company was founded in Long Island City , New York , in 1907 as the successor to the Vehicle Equipment Company . In the same year the company manufactured passenger cars. The brand name was GV . Commercial vehicles were built from 1908 . In 1915 it merged with the truck division of the Peerless Motor Car Corporation . Production continued until 1920.

vehicles

The cars were electric cars . The Ladies Phaeton and Roadster have been handed down .

From 1913 onwards, trucks with gasoline engines were built under a license from the Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft .

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. 665 (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. 665 (English).
  2. ↑ Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry . McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864-0972-3 , pp. 134 (English).