Manhattan Automobile Company

Manhattan Automobile Company
legal form	Company
founding	1900
resolution	1901
Reason for dissolution	insolvency
Seat	New York City , New York , USA
Branch	Automobiles

Manhattan Automobile Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

James A. Hands, Arthur B. Paine and J. Overton Paine founded the company in late 1900. The seat was in New York City . They wanted to build electric cars and operate bus routes with electric buses . In fact, some electric cars were built in 1901. The brand name was Manhattan .

Bankruptcy began in October 1901 .

vehicles

The electric cars were bodied as runabouts . They were similar to the models of the Baker Motor Vehicle Company . The original price was 1,200 US dollars .

There were also experiments with steam cars .

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. 919 (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. 919 (English).
2. ↑ Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry . McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864-0972-3 , pp. 185 (English).