Marsh Motors Company

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Marsh Motors Company
legal form Company
founding 1919
resolution 1923
Reason for dissolution insolvency
Seat Cleveland , Ohio , USA
management Alonzo R. Marsh
Branch Automobiles

Marsh Motors Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Alonzo R. Marsh had previous automotive experience with the Marsh Motor Carriage Company and the American Motor Company . He founded the company in 1919 with his brother William and two sons. The seat was in Cleveland , Ohio . They started with the production of automobiles. The brand name was Marsh . Production ended in 1923. Bankruptcy followed in June 1923 . A total of six vehicles were built.

vehicles

The aim was to develop a vehicle that bigger and better than the Ford Model T was.

Four vehicles had a four-cylinder engine from the Continental Motors Company . The chassis had a wheelbase of 290 cm .

Two other vehicles had a six-cylinder engine , which also came from Continental, and a 297 cm wheelbase.

Five vehicles were bodied as limousines . There was also an open vehicle.

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. 932 (English).
  • George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 2: G-O . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 959 (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. 932 (English).
  2. ↑ George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 2: G-O . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 959 (English).