Marinette Automobile Company

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Marinette Automobile Company
legal form Company
founding 1907
resolution 1908
Reason for dissolution Bankrupt
Seat Marinette , Wisconsin , USA
management Harry Thayer
Branch Automobiles

Marinette Automobile Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Harry Thayer had gained experience in vehicle construction at T. Neville & Company until 1907 . That year he founded the Thayer Automobile Company in Marinette , Wisconsin , manufacturing accessories for automobiles. He also made a prototype . He convinced the Marinette Iron Manufacturing Company to join him in automotive production. For this purpose, the Marinette Automobile Company was founded in November 1907 . The production of automobiles began. The brand name was Thayer . Production ended in December 1908. On December 1, 1908, it went bankrupt . In total, only a few vehicles were built.

Thayer then ran the Thayer Isham Motor Car Company with a partner named Isham . This was a car dealership for Maxwell Motor Company and Studebaker Corporation vehicles . All of the Thayer companies mentioned were based in Marinette.

Another source mentions the Thayer Isham Automobile Company . The daily newspaper The Daily Eagle Star reported on March 4, 1909 that the Thayer Isham Auto Co. , the first automobile manufacturer was from Marinette.

vehicles

The prototype had a four-cylinder engine . At least nothing else has been handed down for the production models.

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. 1463 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d 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. 1463 (English).
  2. ↑ Tuesday 1st December 1908 (accessed March 30, 2019)
  3. ↑ Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry . McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864-0972-3 , pp. 281 (English).
  4. ↑ The Daily Eagle Star (PDF; accessed March 30, 2019)