Parker Motor Car Company

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Parker Motor Car Company (1914-1915)
Ajax Motors Company (1915)
legal form Company
founding 1914
resolution 1915
Seat Seattle , Washington , USA
management
  • Georges Parker
  • Frank L. Parker
  • Charles L. Parker
Branch Automobiles

Parker Motor Car Company , later Ajax Motors Company , was an American automobile manufacturer .

Company history

Georges Parker, Frank L. Parker, and Charles L. Parker founded the company in 1914 in Seattle , Washington State . They started producing automobiles under the Ajax brand name . Steel was obtained from Krupp . In 1915 the name was changed. Production ended in the same year.

vehicles

The Six model had a six-cylinder engine . What was unusual was that there were both slide motors and motors with normal valve timing . There were three different bodies on three different wheelbases on offer . The roadster had a 305 cm wheelbase, the touring car 338 cm wheelbase and the sedan 345 cm wheelbase. Customers could choose between left-hand drive and right-hand drive .

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. 21 (English).
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 1: A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 22. (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. 21 (English).
  2. ↑ George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 22. (English)