Jenkins Automobile Company

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Jenkins Automobile Company
legal form Company
founding 1900
resolution 1902
Seat Washington, DC , USA
management Charles Francis Jenkins
Branch Automobiles

Jenkins Automobile Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles . Another source uses the Francis Jenkins Auto Company name .

Company history

Charles Francis Jenkins made a steam car as early as 1898 . In 1900 he founded the company in Washington, DC The brand name was Jenkins . Production ended in 1901. The company was dissolved in early 1902.

There was no association with the Jenkins Motor Car Company , which used the same brand name a few years later.

vehicles

The first vehicles were steam cars. A passenger car had a steam engine with 2.5 hp . A setup as a runabout and an empty weight of only 145 kg. In addition, a truck with a length of 488 cm and a bus have been handed down.

A small electric car followed in 1901 . The wheelbase and track width were both 61 cm. Buyer was a Cuban woman named Chiquita with short stature , only 66 cm in size was.

Another source also mentions vehicles with gasoline engines .

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. 783 (English).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c 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. 783 (English).
  2. ↑ a b Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry . McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864-0972-3 , pp. 157 (English).
  3. ↑ Virtual Steam Car Museum (accessed May 19, 2018)