Henry C. Hart Manufacturing Company

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Henry C. Hart Manufacturing Company
legal form Company
founding 1884
resolution 1899
Seat Detroit , Michigan , USA
management Henry C. Hart
Number of employees 350
Branch Safes , automobiles
Status: 1891

Henry C. Hart Manufacturing Company was an American company.

Company history

The company was founded in Detroit , Michigan in November 1884 . The predecessors are the Clark Hardware Company and Henry C. Hart & Company . Henry C. Hart ran the company. It manufactured parts for railways , but also safes and toys .

On August 14, 1891, a fire destroyed the plant. At that time the company employed 350 people. On November 15, 1894, the railroad division was sold to the Dayton Manufacturing Company .

Hart experimented with gasoline engines as early as 1894 and received several patents . On July 15, 1897, he founded the Hart Motor Company to manufacture engines. In 1898 he manufactured several automobiles . The brand name was Hart .

In October 1898, the Ideal Manufacturing Company took over the company. It was dissolved in 1899.

vehicles

The vehicles had gasoline engines from the Hart Motor Company .

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. 680 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d 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. 680 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c d e Henry C. Hart Manufacturing Company, Detroit, Michigan, 1884–1899 (English, accessed April 14, 2018)
  3. ^ San Francisco Call, Volume 70, Number 75, August 14, 1891 (accessed April 14, 2018)