Niagara Automobile Company (1901)

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Niagara Automobile Company
legal form Company
founding 1901
resolution 1902
Seat Niagara Falls , New York , USA
management Thomas McQuain
Branch Automobiles

Niagara Falls Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Thomas McQuain and HN Pysher manufactured the first car in Niagara Falls , New York State, in September 1900 . Plans to start a business were delayed. The partners split up. McQuain founded the company on March 29, 1901 in the same town. He started with the production of automobiles. The brand name was Niagara . At the end of 1902, production came to a standstill. In total, only a few vehicles were built.

Other US manufacturers of passenger cars of the brand Niagara were Niagara Motor Vehicle Company , Wilson Automobile Company , Niagara Motors Manufacturing Company and Niagara Automobile Company (1915) .

vehicles

The vehicles had a gasoline engine with 4 hp . The setup was a runabout with space for four people.

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. 1043 (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. 1113 (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. 1043 (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. 1113 (English).