Mohawk Cycle & Automobile Company

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Mohawk Cycle Company
Mohawk Cycle & Automobile Company
legal form Company
founding 1897 or earlier
resolution 1905
Seat Indianapolis , Indiana , USA
management HL Hewitt
Branch vehicles

Mohawk Cycle & Automobile Company , previously Mohawk Cycle Company , was an American manufacturer of vehicles . Other sources give the company names Mohawk Auto & Cycle Co. and Mohawk Automobile & Cycle Co. on.

Company history

The Mohawk Cycle Company was based in Indianapolis , Indiana . She initially made bicycles that were marketed as Rumsey . The oldest known advertisement dates from 1897. In April 1903 the name was changed. HL Hewitt was running the company at the time. Now the production of automobiles also began . The brand name was Mohawk . Production ended in 1905. Then the company was dissolved. Older sources assumed a production task in 1904.

There was no connection with the Mohawk Motor Company from Boston , which also manufactured Mohawk automobiles between 1914 and 1915 .

vehicles

There were three models on offer. The 7 HP had a single cylinder engine with 7 HP and a structure as a runabout .

The 18 HP was powered by a two-cylinder engine with 18 HP. It was bodied as a tonneau .

The 70 HP had a four-cylinder engine with 70 HP. He was a racing car . Two vehicles were created from this. The buyers were Carl Fisher and Earl Kiser.

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) construction
1903-1905 7 HP 1 7th Runabout
1903-1905 18 HP 2 18th Tonneau
1903-1905 70 HP 4th 70 Racer

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. 985-986 (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. 1052 (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. 985-986 (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. 1052 (English).
  3. ↑ Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry . McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864-0972-3 , pp. 200 (English).
  4. ^ Advertisement from 1897 In: The Indianapolis Journal of April 11, 1897. (English, accessed October 27, 2018)