Leach Motor Vehicle Company

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Leach Motor Vehicle Company
legal form Company
founding 1899
resolution 1901
Seat Everett , Massachusetts , USA
management John M. Leach
Branch Automobiles

Leach Motor Vehicle Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

John M. Leach had made bicycles . In 1899 he founded the company in Everett , Massachusetts . He started with the production of automobiles. The brand name was Leach . Production ended in January 1901 when the company was dissolved.

There was no association with the Leach Motor Car Company , which used the same brand name from 1920.

vehicles

Steam cars were on offer . A steam engine with two cylinders and 6 HP power drove the rear axle via a chain. Was steered with a steering lever. There was a choice of open bodies with two or four seats.

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. 854 (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. 881 (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. 854 (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. 881 (English).