Michigan Automobile Company

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Michigan Automobile Company
legal form Company
founding 1901
resolution 1901
Seat Grand Rapids , Michigan , USA
management Byron J. Carter
Branch Automobiles

Michigan Automobile Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Byron J. Carter founded the company in Grand Rapids , Michigan in 1901 . He started with the production of automobiles. The brand names were Carter and Michigan . Production ended in the same year. The Clipper Autocar Company continued production under its own brand name in 1902.

Carter then founded the Jackson Automobile Company and later the Cartercar Company .

There was no association with Washington Motor Car Company and Richard Carter Automobile Company , which also marketed vehicles as Carter , and with Fuller & Sons Manufacturing Company (1903-1907), Michigan Motor Car Company (1904-1913) and Michigan Hearse & Motor Company (1916), who also used the Michigan brand name .

vehicles

The only model was a steam car . The vehicle was bodied as an open runabout and offered space for two people. The convertible top was standard. Was steered with a steering lever. The original price was 1,000 US dollars . For comparison: an Oldsmobile Curved Dash with a gasoline engine cost 650 dollars without a convertible top.

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. 257 and p. 970 (English).
  • George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 1: A-F . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 250 (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. 1032 (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. 257 (English).
  2. ↑ George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 1: A-F . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 250 (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. 970 (English).
  4. ↑ 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. 1032 (English).