Napoleon Motors Company

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Napoleon Motor Car Company
Traverse City Motor Car Company
Napoleon Motors Company
legal form Company
founding 1916
resolution 1923
Seat Traverse City , Michigan , USA
management WJ Chase
Branch Motor vehicles

Napoleon Motors Company , previously Napoleon Motor Car Company and Traverse City Motor Car Company , was an American manufacturer of motor vehicles .

Company history

AO George was the chief engineer at the Fostoria Light Car Company . FN McGrew worked for the Auburn Automobile Company . Together with GW Russell they founded the Napoleon Motor Car Company in 1916 . The seat was in Napoleon , Ohio . Malcolm Hall Ayer was general manager. In the same year the production of automobiles began . The brand name was Napoleon . Business was not going well.

The city of Traverse City from Michigan made a good offer to the company. Then it moved to this city in 1917 and was now called Traverse City Motor Car Company . WJ Chase was President, CE Culver Vice President, Frank Trude Secretary and Treasurer, and Leon Gauntlett General Manager and Salesman. The brand name was retained.

In the summer of 1918, the company was renamed Napoleon Motors Company . The first commercial vehicle was manufactured in early 1919 . The end of 1919 came to an end for passenger cars . A total of about 300 cars were built. In 1921 a recession caused problems, whereupon production was cut back. Trucks were produced until 1923.

Passenger cars

In 1917 there was only the Model 30 . Its four-cylinder engine developed 30 hp . The chassis had a wheelbase of 279 cm . The choice was between touring car with five and seven seats.

In 1918 it became the Model 4-37 . The engine output had been increased to 37 hp. The wheelbase is no longer recorded. A roadster with three seats and a touring car with five seats are named. The Model 6-45 also appeared . Its six-cylinder engine developed 45 hp. The structure was a touring car with six seats.

In 1919 nothing changed.

Car model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1917 Model 30 4th 17th 279 5-seater and 7-seater touring cars
1918-1919 Model 4-37 4th 37 Roadster 3-seater, touring car 5-seater
1918-1919 Model 6-45 6th 45 6-seater touring car

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. 1013 (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. 1100 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 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. 1013 (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. 1100 (English).