Morse-Readio Auto Company

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Morse-Readio Auto Company
legal form Company
founding 1909
resolution 1914
Seat Springfield , Massachusetts , USA
management
  • Glenn E. Morse
  • George N. Readio
Branch Automobiles

Morse-Readio Auto Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Glenn E. Morse and George N. Readio founded the company in 1909. The seat was in Springfield , Massachusetts . Readio was previously a designer at Springfield Motor Car Company . In the same year the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Morse Readio . Vehicle production ended in 1910.

After that, the company operated as a car dealership . From 1911 were trucks from General Motors sold. Vehicles from the American Locomotive Company were added in 1913 and Velie in 1914 . Then the track of the company is lost.

Other US manufacturers of passenger cars of the brand Morse were Morse , Easton Machine Company , Morse Motor Vehicle Company and Morse Cyclecar Company .

vehicles

Only one model was on offer. It had a four-cylinder engine with an L-head and developed 36 hp . The chassis had a wheelbase of 279 cm . The only body was a four-seater roadster with no doors, the rear seats of which could be removed. The maximum speed was specified with 88 km / h. The original price was 2500 US dollars .

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. 1004 (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. 1080 (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. 1004 (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. 1080 (English).