JM Quinby & Co.

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JM Quinby & Co.
legal form Company
founding 1874
resolution 1917
Seat Newark , New Jersey , USA
Branch Carriages , bodies , automobiles

JM Quinby & Co. was an American manufacturer of carriages , car bodies, and automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded in 1874 as the successor to James M. Quinby & Sons . The seat was in Newark , New Jersey . James Milnor Quinby initially directed it. Partners were Isaac S. Ayres and John H. Jephson. They made carriages. 100 people were employed at the time. James Milnor Quinby retired after an illness and died in 1892. William W. Ogden became the new president and his brother Henry became vice president and treasurer.

Some automobiles were made between 1899 and 1900 . The brand name was Quinby .

Shortly afterwards, bodies for automobiles were added. In 1917 the company was dissolved.

Motor vehicles

Electric cars were on offer . They were created according to customer orders. Some parts were from the Riker Electric Motor Company .

Simplex with a structure by Quinby

Superstructures were created for: American Fiat , American Mercedes , Benz & Cie. , Daimler Motor Company , Decauville , Fiat , Hol-Tan Company , Isotta Fraschini , Jennis Company , LB Smyser & Company , Lancia , Locomobile , Lozier Motor Company , Matheson Automobile Company , Mercedes , Minerva Motors , Moon Motor Car Company , Packard , Panhard & Levassor , Pennsylvania Auto-Motor Company , Pierce-Arrow , Renault , Rolls-Royce Motor Cars , Scott Iron Works , Simplex Automobile Company, and Smith & Mabley Manufacturing 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. 1256 (English).
  • George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1283 (English).

Web links

Commons : JM Quinby & Co.  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 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. 1256 (English).
  2. ↑ George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1283 (English).
  3. ↑ a b c Mark Theobald: JM Quinby & Co. (English, accessed December 29, 2018)