Pittsburgh Machine Tool Company

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Pittsburgh Machine Tool Company
legal form Company
founding 1899
resolution 1919
Seat Allegheny , Pennsylvania , USA
Branch Mechanical engineering , automobiles

Pittsburgh Machine Tool Company was an American company in the engineering and manufacture of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded in 1899. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported on it on April 29, 1899. Frank Moore was the first president. The seat was in Allegheny , Pennsylvania , now part of Pittsburgh . It was active in the field of mechanical engineering. It also manufactured automobiles between 1905 and 1908. The brand name was Pittsburg , possibly with the addition of Steamer .

On September 12, 1917, the company received another patent. It was dissolved in 1919.

Other manufacturers of passenger cars of the Pittsburgh brand were Pittsburgh Motor Vehicle Company and Pittsburgh Motor Car Company .

vehicles

Steam cars were on offer .

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. 1197 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d 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. 1197 (English).
  2. a b Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry . McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864-0972-3 , pp. 229 (English).
  3. a b c Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 29, 1899 (accessed December 22, 2018)
  4. ^ Patent dated September 12, 1917 (English, accessed December 22, 2018)
  5. Pittsburgh Machine Tool Company (PDF; accessed December 22, 2018)