Messerer Automobile Company

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Messerer Automobile Company
legal form Company
founding 1899
resolution 1901
Seat Newark , New Jersey , USA
management Stephen Messerer
Branch Motor vehicles

Messerer Automobile Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles . Two patents confirm this name. Another source uses the name Stephen Messerer Automobile Company .

prehistory

Stephen Messerer was a watchmaker and jeweler in Newark , New Jersey . There he manufactured a passenger car as early as 1897 and founded the S. Messerer Motor Wagon Company for this purpose . Series production did not take place.

Company history

In 1899 he founded the new company in the same town with the financial help of local businessmen Joseph Fisch, Adolph Goldfinger and Julius E. Seitz. They started with the production of commercial vehicles . The brand name was Messerer . In 1901 cars were added. Production ended in the same year.

vehicles

The trucks had four-cylinder engines .

The cars of 1901 were high wheelers . They had a single cylinder engine with 4 hp . The engine power was transmitted to the rear axle via belts. The setup was a stanhope . The maximum speed was given as 19 km / h.

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. 964 (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. 964 (English).
  2. ↑ Patent US654996A (accessed October 13, 2018)
  3. ↑ Patent US662455A (accessed October 13, 2018)
  4. ↑ Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry . McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864-0972-3 , pp. 195 (English).