Holyoke Automobile Company

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Holyoke Motor Works
Holyoke Automobile Company
legal form Company
founding 1899
resolution 1903
Seat Holyoke , Massachusetts , USA
management Charles R. Greuter
Branch Automobiles

Holyoke Automobile Company , previously Holyoke Motor Works , was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Charles R. Greuter came from Switzerland . He made two prototypes in 1898 . In 1899 he went into business for himself and founded Holyoke Motor Works in Holyoke , Massachusetts . In April 1899, the plans amounted to ten vehicles per month, which were sold as Holyoke . In April 1900, the name was changed to Holyoke Automobile Company .

In August 1903 it merged with the Matheson Automobile Company .

vehicles

Automobiles with gasoline engines were on offer . The first vehicles had a two-cylinder engine with 7 hp . The OHV valve control was progressive for the time . The structure had four seats and was called a trap .

The following vehicles were noticeably heavy. A Surrey with an empty weight of 1270 kg , a Phaeton with 680 kg and a Stanhope with 1360 kg have been handed down.

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. 715 (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. 709 (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. 715 (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. 709 (English).