Motor Chair Sales and Operation Company

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Motor Chair Sales and Operation Company
legal form Company
founding 1915
resolution 1916
Seat Chicago , Illinois , USA
Branch Automobiles

Motor Chair Sales and Operation Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded in 1915 in Chicago , Illinois . In the same year the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Motor Chair . The vehicles were presented and introduced on the occasion of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in Chicago in 1915. It was launched in 1916, when production ended.

vehicles

Electric cars were on offer . As the brand name suggests, they were motor chairs. However, they had a body made of metal or wood and in this way differed from a motorized hospital elevator . The tires were solid rubber tires . One illustration shows a tricycle with a single front wheel and a bench seat 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. 1006 (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. 1006 (English).
  2. ↑ Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry . McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864-0972-3 , pp. 204 (English).