Niagara Automobile Company (1915)

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Niagara Automobile Company
legal form Company
founding 1915
resolution 1916
Seat Buffalo , New York , USA
Branch Automobiles

Niagara Automobile Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded in Buffalo , New York , in 1915 . It was an amalgamation of the Mutual Motor Car Company , which was designated as the sponsor, and the Poppenberg Motor Company as the sales company. In 1915 automobile production began at a Crow-Elkhart plant in Elkhart , Indiana . The brand name was Niagara , possibly with the addition of Four . Production ended in 1916. A total of around 500 vehicles were built.

Other US manufacturers of passenger cars of the brand Niagara were Niagara Automobile Company (1901) , Niagara Motor Vehicle Company , Wilson Automobile Company and Niagara Motors Manufacturing Company .

vehicles

Only one model was on offer. The Model C-16 had a four-cylinder engine from Lycoming . 88.9 mm bore and 127 mm stroke resulted in a displacement of 3153 cm³ and an output of 20 hp . The chassis had a wheelbase of 284 cm . Are Narrated touring car with five seats and Roadster with two seats.

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. 1044 (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. 1044 (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).