Longest Brothers Company

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Longest Brothers Company Inc.
legal form Inc.
founding 1906
resolution 1912
Reason for dissolution takeover
Seat Louisville , Kentucky , USA
management
  • CF Longest
  • TF Longest
  • WB Longest
Branch Motor vehicles

Longest Brothers Company was an American manufacturer of motor vehicles .

Company history

The brothers CF, TF and WB Longest founded the company in September 1906. The company was based in Louisville , Kentucky . As a car dealership , they sold Stoddard-Dayton vehicles . In 1906 they made some passenger cars . The brand name was Longest . Commercial vehicles were built until 1912.

In 1912, HJ Edwards and CG Stoddard took over the company and founded the Edwards Motor Car 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. 900 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Horseless Age of December 26, 1906 (accessed August 11, 2018)
  2. 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. 900 (English).
  3. Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry . McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864-0972-3 , pp. 180 (English).