Millington Motor Car Company

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Millington Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1917
resolution 1917
Seat Chicago , Illinois , USA
Branch Motor vehicles

Millington Motor Car Company was an American manufacturer of motor vehicles .

Company history

By early 1917 there was the Millington Auto Engineering Company , the trucks with rear-wheel drive to four-wheel drive rebuilt. The Millington Motor Car Company was founded in early 1917 as a successor company. The seat was in Chicago , Illinois . It mainly manufactured delivery vans and a few passenger cars as well . The brand name was Frontaway . Production ended in the same year.

vehicles

The vans were front-wheel drive . This made a particularly low vehicle frame possible. They had a payload of around 450 kg . The original price was 675 US dollars .

On the same basis there was a runabout or roadster , of which only one drawing has survived. The open body offered space for two people next to each other.

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. 618 (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. 618 (English).
  2. ↑ Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry . McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864-0972-3 , pp. 120 (English).