Hampden Automobile & Launch Company

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Hampden Automobile & Launch Company
legal form Company
founding 1900
resolution 1901
Seat Springfield , Massachusetts , USA
management
  • WD Eaton
  • AM Green
Branch Automobiles

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

Company history

James Frank Duryea , known from Duryea , WD Eaton and AM Green founded the company in September 1900. The company was based in Springfield , Massachusetts . They made automobiles that were marketed as Hampden . Production ended in 1901. In total, only a few vehicles were built. Duryea then switched to Stevens-Duryea .

Homer R. Burton and RA McKee took over the company and turned it into an auto repair shop.

vehicles

Only one model was on offer. It had a two - cylinder four-stroke engine . It was mounted under the seat and drove the rear axle. A special feature was that the engine could be started from the seat. The open body in the form of a runabout offered space for two people. The curb weight was given as 340 kg.

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. 673 (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. 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. 673 (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. 665 (English).