Gray Light Car Corporation

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Gray Light Car Corporation
legal form Corporation
founding 1920
resolution 1921
Seat Denver , Colorado , USA
management HA Gray
Branch Automobiles

Gray Light Car Corporation was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

HA Gray founded the company in 1920. The seat was in Denver , Colorado . He started with the production of automobiles. The brand name was Gray . Plans for a larger plant in Longmont could not be realized. Production ended in 1920. In 1921 the company was dissolved. In total, only a few vehicles were built.

There was no association with Andermat Machine Company and Gray Motor Corporation , which used the same brand name.

vehicles

The manufacturer referred to its vehicles as light cars , i.e. small cars . However, they had some elements that point to Cyclecar . The boom in cycle cars in the USA since 1914 was over. The wheels came from a motorcycle . There were two different Harley-Davidson engines to choose from . These were a one and a two cylinder engine . The original price was between 350 and 450 US dollars .

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. 655 (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. 646 (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. 655 (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. 646 (English).