Hasbrouck Motor Works

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Hasbrouck Motor Works
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founding 1899
resolution 1906
Seat New London , Connecticut , USA
Branch Motor vehicles

Hasbrouck Motor Works was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded in March 1899 to produce marine engines . The persons Wiliam H. Burchell, EJ Collins, Lemuel F. Dickerson, Joseph Hasbrouck, Stephen A. Hasbrouck, William H. Hassett, Carl F. Hermann and FO Matthiessen are named. The seat was initially in Newark , New Jersey . In May 1900, the company moved to Piermont , New York . There experiments with motor vehicles , especially buses and trucks, began . A passenger car has survived from 1901 , which was successfully tested in April 1901.

Bankruptcy began in November 1901 . However, the financial problems were overcome. In November 1902 two cars were delivered to South America . The brand name was Hasbrouck . Further vehicles would have been manufactured according to customer orders. It is not known whether this happened. Vehicle production ended in the same year. The workshop continued to operate.

In late 1902 the company moved to Yonkers and a few years later to New London , Connecticut . An advertisement dated August 4, 1906 has survived. Then the track of the company is lost.

Car

The prototype was a Phaeton with two seats. A single cylinder engine with 6 HP power drove the rear axle via a planetary gear and a chain.

The vehicles from 1902 were runabouts . They also had a gasoline engine .

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. 682 (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. 674 (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. 682 (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. 674 (English).
  3. ↑ Scientific American , August 4, 1906. (accessed April 14, 2018)