Hub Motor Car Exchange

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Hub Motor Car Exchange
legal form
founding 1900s
resolution 20th century
Seat Dorchester , Massachusetts , USA
Branch Automobiles

Hub Motor Car Exchange was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was based in Dorchester , Massachusetts . At first it was active as a car dealer. In 1906 the plant was bought by the dissolved Crest Manufacturing Company . The production of automobiles began in 1906 on the basis of the Crestmobile. The brand name was initially Dorchester . Sales were bad. A better model followed in 1907, which was now marketed as a hub . It was presented at the Boston Automobile Show in early 1907 . Vehicle production ended in the same year.

It is not known when the company was dissolved.

vehicles

Brand name Dorchester

The only model was a lean version of the Crestmobile. An air-cooled single-cylinder engine with 4 HP power drove the rear axle via a chain. It was mounted without a panel above the front axle and directly in front of the dashboard. A steering lever was used for steering, which was long out of date in 1906. The only structure was a light two-seater runabout . The curb weight was around 181 kg.

Brand name Hub

This model continued to have a single cylinder engine. It was also air-cooled and was under a hood . The engine output of 10 hp was transmitted to the rear axle via a planetary gear and a cardan shaft .

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. 485 and p. 721 (English).
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 1: A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 454 (English).
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 2: G – O. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 725 (English).

Web links

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. 485 and p. 721 (English).
  2. ↑ George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 454 and p. 725 (English).