Niagara Motor Vehicle Company

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Niagara Motor Vehicle Company
legal form Company
founding 1902
resolution 1902
Reason for dissolution insolvency
Seat Buffalo , New York , USA
management Charles Lindstrom
Branch Automobiles

Niagara Motor Vehicle Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Charles Lindstrom had left the Hewitt-Lindstrom Motor Company in December 1901 . In January 1902, he manufactured a prototype in Buffalo , New York, United States . Shortly thereafter, he founded the company in the same city. The production of automobiles began. The brand name was Niagara , possibly with the addition of Electric . Bankruptcy followed in autumn 1902 . The company was dissolved. In total, only a few vehicles were built. On February 25, 1904, the assets were auctioned. Lindstrom switched to Towanda Motor Vehicle Company .

Other US manufacturers of passenger cars of the brand Niagara were Niagara Automobile Company (1901) , Wilson Automobile Company , Niagara Motors Manufacturing Company and Niagara Automobile Company (1915) .

vehicles

Only electric cars were on offer . Superstructures were runabouts with two seats, a road wagon and a delivery van .

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).

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. Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry . McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864-0972-3 , pp. 210 (English).