Monarch Automobile Company

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Monarch Automobile Company
legal form Company
founding 1905
resolution 1908
Seat Aurora , Illinois , USA
management EB overshiner
Branch Automobiles

Monarch from 1905

Monarch Automobile Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

PJ Dasey advertised his vehicle as early as 1903, although at that time he was unable to start production in Chicago , Illinois . In 1905 he moved to Aurora , Illinois, and started the company there. EB Overshiner was President, DW Simpson Vice President, William George Treasurer, Frank Doussang Secretary, and AB McCord General Manager. In the same year the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Monarch . In 1906 the company went bankrupt , but it was survived. That year George and McCord were also associated with the Emancipator Automobile Company in the same town. Production ended in the summer of 1908.

Other US manufacturers of passenger cars of the brand Monarch were Milwaukee Motor Manufacturing Company , Monarch Motor Car Company (Illinois) , Monarch Machine Company and Monarch Motor Car Company (Michigan) .

vehicles

The only model was a runabout . It had an air-cooled single cylinder engine with 7 hp . The chassis had a wheelbase of 173 cm . It was initially steered with a steering lever and only from 1907 with a steering wheel .

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. 989 (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. 1054 (English).

Web links

Commons : Monarch Automobile Company  - 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. 989 (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. 1054 (English).