Maryland Automobile Company

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Maryland Automobile Company
legal form Company
founding 1900
resolution 1901
Reason for dissolution insolvency
Seat Luke , Maryland , USA
Branch Motor vehicles

Maryland Automobile Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles . The name Maryland Automobile & Manufacturing Company is also called.

Company history

The company was founded in Luke , Maryland in the spring of 1900 . Joseph Borrow, John C. Bossel, SB Harcom, Milton Jacobi and Alexander S. Stern were involved. In the same year the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Maryland . In December 1900 a storm destroyed the plant. However, the company was insured. After reconstruction, production continued. The bankruptcy began on May 15, 1901 .

In 1902 another company took over the plant.

There was no association with the Sinclair-Scott Company , which used the same brand name a few years later.

vehicles

Only steam cars were on offer . They had a steam engine with two cylinders . The engine power was transmitted to the rear axle via a chain. The superstructures are Tourist Carriage , Surrey , Phaeton , Runabout , Omnibus , another omnibus with 14 seats, a delivery van and a racing machine . The new prices were between 900 and 2500 US dollars .

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. 934 (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. 964 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 964 (English).
  2. ↑ a b Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry . McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864-0972-3 , pp. 189 (English).
  3. ↑ 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. 934 (English).