Herreshoff Manufacturing Company

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Herreshoff Manufacturing Company
legal form Company
founding 1878
resolution 1947
Reason for dissolution liquidation
Seat Bristol , Rhode Island , USA
management RF port hit
Branch Ships

USS Herreshoff No. 306
USS Herreshoff No. 309
The company's stationary steam engine

Herreshoff Manufacturing Company was an American manufacturer of ships .

Company history

The brothers John Brown and Nathanael Greene Herreshoff founded the company in 1878. The seat was in Bristol , Rhode Island . They made boats and ships. At the end of 1916 and 1917, some automobiles were also made . The brand name was Novara .

RF Haffenreffer took over the company in 1924. Production ended in 1945. Liquidation followed in 1947 .

Boats

The company's boats have won the America's Cup several times .

Automobiles

Sporty vehicles were on offer. They had a four-cylinder engine of Sterling with Overhead valves and 1,969 cc engine capacity . The chassis had a wheelbase of 279 cm . The structure was an open roadster with two seats. The maximum speed was given as 112 km / h. The spare wheel was placed almost horizontally at the rear and also served as a bumper . The original price was 2750 US dollars . A total of three vehicles were built.

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. 1048-1049 (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. 1124 (English).

Web links

Commons : Herreshoff Manufacturing Company  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Susan Bosco, Jake Getz, Dylan Matteo, Alexander Rudkin: Herreshoff Manufacturing Company (PDF; English, accessed on November 10, 2018)
  2. ↑ a b Albert Gieseler: Herreshoff Manufacturing Company (accessed on November 10, 2018)
  3. ↑ a b c 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. 1048-1049 (English).
  4. ↑ 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. 1124 (English).