Harrison Motor Company

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Harrison Motor Company
legal form Company
founding 1906
resolution 1907
Reason for dissolution insolvency
Seat Grand Rapids , Michigan , USA
Branch Automobiles

Harrison Motor Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded in 1906 as a division of the Harrison Wagon Works . The seat was in Grand Rapids , Michigan . In February 1906, the first vehicle was presented at the Chicago Automobile Show . The brand name was Harrison . Albert C. Menges was the designer. Menges left the company in November 1906.

In March 1907 there were problems. A reorganization was planned. Clay H. Hollister, Henry W. Marsh, Mark Norris, Maurice Shanahan and James R. Wiley are named in this context. Instead, they went bankrupt . In total, only a few vehicles were built.

The Anthony-Hatcher Company continued production.

vehicles

The specialty of the vehicles was a starter . Obviously it was not mature enough and was causing some problems. A four-cylinder engine with 6300 cm³ displacement and 40 HP power propelled the vehicles. The chassis had a wheelbase of 269 ​​cm . The structure was an open touring car with seven seats. The original price was 5,000 US dollars , which a source described as expensive.

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. 679 (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. 673 (English).

Web links

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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. 679 (English).
  2. ↑ a b 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. 673 (English).