Nelson Motor Truck Company
| Nelson Motor Truck Company | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1918 |
| resolution | 1924 |
| Seat | Saginaw , Saginaw County , Michigan ( USA ) |
| Branch | Commercial vehicle manufacturer |
The Nelson Motor Truck Company was an American commercial vehicle manufacturers . The brand name was Jumbo .
The company was founded in Saginaw in 1918 to manufacture commercial vehicles from purchased components (so-called assembled trucks ). Premises were found in the former production facilities of Saginaw Motor Company , maker of the Yale passenger car.
Between 1919 and 1920 the Model A was the only product. This was a truck with a Buda - four-cylinder engine of 312 ci (5113 cm³) of displacement and a load of 2.5 t . It was available in two versions with an open platform , Stake truck and Express . Both cost US $ 3,550.
With the model year 1921, similar models appeared with 1.5; 2; 3 and 3.5 t payload (1.5 to 4 t according to another source). They too received Buda four-cylinder engines in various sizes. All had Fuller four-speed transmissions and Clark bevel-gear rear axles
The trademark was the circus elephant "Jumbo". An elephant pictured from the front also formed the letter “M” in the logo on the radiator grille.
literature
- GN Georgano (Ed.), G. Marshall Naul: Complete Encyclopedia of Commercial Vehicles. MBI Motor Books International, Osceola WI 1979, ISBN 0-87341-024-6 . (English)
- Albert Mroz: Illustrated Encyclopedia of American Trucks and Commercial Vehicles. Krause Publications, Iola WI 1996, ISBN 0-87341-368-7 . (English)
- Walter MP McCall: Illustrated Encyclopedia of American Fire Engine Manufacturers. Iconografix, Hudson WI 2009, ISBN 978-1-58388-252-8 . (English)
- Fred Crismon: Fire Engines. (= Crestline series). MBI Motor Books International, Osceola WI 1997, ISBN 0-7603-0381-9 . (English)
- Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
Web links
- trombinoscar.com: Jumbo Model A truck (1919); 1901 (French) (accessed May 17, 2015)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c G. N. Georgano, G. Marshall Naul: Complete Encyclopedia of Commercial Vehicles. 1979, p. 347
- ↑ a b c Mroz: Illustrated Encyclopedia of American Trucks and Commercial Vehicles. 1996, p. 222
- ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 (chapter Yale).
- ↑ a b c trombinoscar.com: Jumbo Model A truck 1919
- ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 (Jumbo chapter).