Little Motor Kar Company

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Little Motor Kar Company
legal form Company
founding 1919
resolution 1921
Reason for dissolution insolvency
Seat Grand Prairie , Texas , USA
Branch Automobiles

Little Motor Kar Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

William S. Livezey founded the company in Grand Prairie , Texas in 1919 . He started with the production of automobiles. The brand name was Texmobile . The first public presentation took place in mid-October 1919 at the Dallas Fair . In April 1920 Livezey was arrested for fraud and later convicted. Production ended in 1921. In total, only a few vehicles were built. The bankruptcy followed.

There is evidence that in December 1921 some people took over the remainder of the company, reorganized it and offered commercial vehicles as Little .

vehicles

Only one model was on offer. It had a four-cylinder engine with 22.5 hp . The chassis had a wheelbase of 277 cm . The choice was between touring cars and roadsters . They were similar to the models from the Stutz Motor Car Company of America . The original price was 750 US dollars .

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. 1462-1463 (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. 1582 (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. 1462-1463 (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. 1582 (English).