Northway Motors Corporation

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Northway Motors Corporation
legal form Corporation
founding 1918
resolution 1925
Reason for dissolution insolvency
Seat Natick , Massachusetts , USA
Branch Motor vehicles

Northway Motors Corporation was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Northway Motors Corporation stock dated May 21, 1920

Ralph E. Northway had operated the Northway Motor and Manufacturing Company as an engine manufacturer and sold it to General Motors around 1912 . In January 1918 he founded the new vehicle production company together with business people from Boston . The seat was in Natick , Massachusetts . Mainly he manufactured commercial vehicles. Passenger cars were also produced between 1921 and April 1922 . The brand name was Northway . In 1922, Northway left the company. In the same year financial problems became known. Production ended in 1925. The company went bankrupt .

vehicles

There was only one car model. Initially it had a self-made engine with OHV valve timing , designed by AJ Romer. From 1922 onwards, a cheaper built-in engine from Herschell-Spillman with an L-head was used. Both were six-cylinder engines that were specified with 61 hp . The chassis had a wheelbase of 325 cm . There was a choice of touring cars with six seats, a sport with two seats, a coupé with four seats and a sedan with seven seats. The original price was between 3800 and 4950 US dollars .

For the trucks are four-cylinder engines and payloads between 2 and 3.5 tons delivered.

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. 1046-1047 (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. 1122 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c 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. 1046-1047 (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. 1122 (English).
  3. ^ Halwart Schrader , Jan P. Norbye: The truck lexicon. All brands 1900 to today. Schrader Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-613-01837-3 , p. 122.