Mobile Company of America

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Mobile Company of America
legal form Company
founding 1899
resolution 1904
Seat Tarrytown , New York , USA
management John Brisben Walker
Branch Automobiles

Mobile from 1900 at the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run 2011
Mobile from 1901 in the traffic center of the Deutsches Museum in Munich
Historical recording

Mobile Company of America was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

John Brisben Walker and Amzi Lorenzo Barber founded the Locomobile Company of America in June 1899 . A short time later they separated. Walker only got the rights to market the designed vehicle under his name. He started his own business in Tarrytown , New York State , in the summer of 1899 . In March 1900 the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Mobile . At the end of 1903, production came to a standstill. In May 1904 Maxwell-Briscoe acquired the plant.

The company was in constant competition with Locomobile. Mobile offered more body styles, but was still inferior in sales. By the end of production in 1903, 600 vehicles were built, while Locomobile had produced 5,000 vehicles by then.

vehicles

Only steam cars were on offer . A steam engine with two cylinders and 10 hp powered the vehicles.

They had different structures. Some were passenger cars , others were vans , trucks, and buses . Are called Runabout , Victoria , Dos-à-dos , Surrey , Stanhope , Wagonette , touring cars and coupe .

Model overview

year model construction
1900-1903 Model 3 Spindle seat runabout
1900-1903 Model 4 Solid seat runabout
1900-1903 Model 5 Buggy Top Runabout
1900-1903 Model 6 Godd. Top runabout
1900-1903 Model 7 Victoria Runabout, Standard Runabout Victoria
1900-1903 Model 8 Dos-à-dos
1900-1903 Model 9 Dos-à-dos
1900-1903 Model 10 Surrey
1900-1903 Model 11 Standard dos-à-dos
1900-1903 Model 12 Victoria Stanhope
1900-1903 Model 13 Touring wagonette
1900-1903 Model 16 Light Delivery (light delivery van)
1900-1903 Model 20 Light Surrey
1900-1903 Model 22 Steam Wagonette, Extended Top Surrey
1900-1903 Model 23 Touring 6-seater
1900-1903 Model 30 Canopy Top Rapid Transit Wagonette
1900-1903 Model 31 Solid Top Rapid Transit Wagonette
1900-1903 Model 36 Rapod Transit Omnibus
1900-1903 Model 40 Light Delivery (light delivery van)
1900-1903 Model 41 Heavy Delivery (heavy delivery truck)
1900-1903 Model 42 Mer. Delivery (delivery truck)
1900-1903 Model 46 Heavy truck
1900-1903 Model 50 9-seater coupé
1900-1903 Special Runabout

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. 983-984 (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. 1050 (English).

Web links

Commons : Mobile Company of America  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

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. 983-984 (English).
  2. ↑ 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. 1050 (English).