Quinsler & Company

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Quinsler & Company
legal form Company
founding 1884
resolution 1911
Reason for dissolution reorganization
Seat Boston , Massachusetts , USA
management George J. Quinsler
Branch vehicles

Quinsler & Company was an American manufacturer of vehicles .

Company history

George J. Quinsler ran Emond & Quinsler together with Joseph P. Emond from 1870 . Quinsler left the company in 1883. He then founded his own company in Boston , Massachusetts in 1884 . He made carriages . George W. McNear joined the company in 1895. In 1899 20 bodies were built for the Electric Vehicle Company .

In 1904 the production of own automobiles began. The brand name was Quinsler . This production ended in the same year.

In 1905 McNear became a co-owner.

For 1906 a body is on a chassis of Packard survived.

In 1911 there was a reorganization in George W. McNear .

Motor vehicles

Only one model was on offer. It had a single cylinder engine with 7 hp from De Dion-Bouton . It was mounted in the front of the vehicle and drove the rear axle. The structure was a two-seat runabout with a jump seat behind it. The original price was 950 US dollars . One source says the price was relatively high.

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. 1256 (English).
  • George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1284 (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. 1256 (English).
  2. ↑ a b George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1284 (English).
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Mark Theobald: Quinsler & Co. (English, accessed December 29, 2018)