James MacNaughton Motor Car Company

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MacNaughton & DuBroy Company
James MacNaughton Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1905
resolution after 1907
Seat Buffalo , New York , USA
management James MacNaughton
Branch vehicles

James MacNaughton Motor Car Company , previously MacNaughton & DuBroy Company , was an American manufacturer of vehicles . The short form James MacNaughton Company has also been handed down.

Company history

James MacNaughton worked for the German-American Automobile Company from 1902 to 1903 . At the end of 1905 he founded the MacNaughton & DuBroy Company with a partner in Buffalo , New York State . He made carriages and motors . In 1906, in collaboration with the Brunn Carriage Manufacturing Company, a number of passenger cars were created that were marketed as MacNaughton . In the same year the company name changed to James MacNaughton Motor Car Company . In 1907 MacNaughton made other automobiles . The brand name was now Hercules , possibly with the addition of Electric .

Carriage production continued for some time. MacNaughton also sold other manufacturers' vehicles .

Motor vehicles

Brand name MacNaughton

The vehicles were electric cars .

Brand name Hercules

Once again, only electric cars were on offer. The engine power was transmitted to the drive axle via a chain. The Model 140 was a runabout with either two or four seats. The Model 141 was bodied as a two-seater landaulet .

In addition, commercial vehicles with electric motors have survived.

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. 698 and 914 (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. 686 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d 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. 914 (English).
  2. ↑ 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. 698 (English).
  3. ↑ a b 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. 686 (English).