Huntington Automobile Company

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Huntington Automobile Company
legal form Company
founding 1906
resolution 1907
Reason for dissolution insolvency
Seat Huntington , New York , USA
Branch Automobiles

Huntington Automobile Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

John F. McMulkin gained experience in automotive engineering as an engineer with the Daimler Manufacturing Company . He founded the company in Huntington , New York , in 1906 . August Heckscher is said to have been a financier. They started producing automobiles in the same year. The brand name was Merciless . The similarity to the Mercedes brand of Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft was intentional. Production ended in 1907. A total of four vehicles were built.

In December 1907 the bankruptcy followed .

vehicles

The only model resembled a model from Mercedes. The vehicles were powered by a six-cylinder engine with 70 hp . A bore of 120.65 mm and a stroke of 146.05 mm resulted in a displacement of 10,018 cm³ . The chassis had a wheelbase of 323 cm . The open touring car offered space for seven people.

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. 960 (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. 1009 (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. 960 (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. 1009 (English).