Northway Motors Corporation
Northway Motors Corporation | |
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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
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
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ 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).
- ^ Halwart Schrader , Jan P. Norbye: The truck lexicon. All brands 1900 to today. Schrader Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-613-01837-3 , p. 122.