Graham Automobile & Launch Company

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Graham Automobile & Launch Company
legal form Company
founding 1903
resolution 1903
Seat Chicago , Illinois , USA
Branch Automobiles

Graham Automobile & Launch Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded in 1903 in Chicago , Illinois . It made automobiles that came out as Graham Electric . Production ended in the same year.

vehicles

Electric cars were on offer . The electric motor came from Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing . It drove the rear axle via a chain. The chassis had a wheelbase of 198 cm . The body shape was an open runabout with space for two people. The original price was 850 US dollars .

Plans for a vehicle with an 8 hp paid single cylinder - petrol engine on the same chassis have not been implemented.

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. 646 (English).
  • George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 2: G-O . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 642 (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. 646 (English).
  2. George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 2: G-O . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 642 (English).