Luxor Cab Manufacturing Company
Luxor Cab Manufacturing Company | |
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legal form | Company |
founding | 1924 |
resolution | 1927 |
Reason for dissolution | insolvency |
Seat | Hagerstown , Maryland , USA |
Branch | Automobiles |
Luxor Cab Manufacturing Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .
Company history
The company was founded in Hagerstown , Maryland in 1924 . Allie S. Freed, Mickey Heidt, Joseph Sapinsky as Vice President and Mathias Peter Moller, who ran the MP Moller Motor Car Company , were involved. In the same year the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Luxor for taxis . In the same year, production was relocated to a RH Long Company plant in Framingham , Massachusetts . There is now also emerged passenger cars , the Standish were named.
In 1925 the Standish was given up. In November 1925 the plant was acquired by Long. Bankruptcy began in the summer of 1926 . Production ended in 1927.
vehicles
Brand name Luxor
These were taxis. They had a four-cylinder engine of Buda . The chassis had a wheelbase of 290 cm . Choices were sedan for $ 2695 and landaulet for $ 2795.
Brand name Standish
The vehicles resembled the Dagmar von Moller's company. They had a six-cylinder engine from the Continental Motors Company . A sedan has been completed, and possibly an open-top Phaeton .
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. 910 and p. 1377 (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. 1500 (English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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. 910 (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. 1500 (English).
- ↑ 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. 1377 (English).