McGee Manufacturing Company

McGee Manufacturing Company
legal form	Company
founding	1917
resolution	1930s
Seat	Indianapolis , Indiana , USA
management	Harry O. McGee
Branch	Automobiles

McGee Manufacturing Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles . It is also called the HO McGee Manufacturing Company .

Company history

Harry O. McGee founded the company in Indianapolis , Indiana in 1917 . He started with the production of automobiles. The brand name was McGill . Production ended in the 1930s. A total of around 16 vehicles were built. Four vehicles should still exist.

vehicles

The vehicles looked like locomotives . They were also known as the Trackless Train . The chassis came from different manufacturers such as Cord , Dagmar and Graham-Paige .

Customers were film studios, u. a. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer , the Majestic radio station, and the Kelly-Springfield Tire Company .

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. 952 (English).

Web links

• Hayden R. Shepley: The Trackless Trains of Harry O. McGee (PDF; English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{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. 952 (English).
2. ↑ ^{a b} coachbuilt (English, accessed August 25, 2018)