Roger American Mechanical Carriage Company

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Roger American Mechanical Carriage Company
legal form Company
founding 1895
resolution 1897
Reason for dissolution Death of the owner
Seat New York City , New York , USA
management Émile Roger
Branch Automobiles

Roger American Mechanical Carriage Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

In Paris, Émile Roger produced Roger-Benz vehicles based on patents from Benz & Cie. here. In 1895 he traveled to the USA with three of his vehicles, which he sold to the Macy’s , Gimbels and Wanamaker’s department stores . Macy's used the vehicle in the Chicago Times-Herald Contest .

In the same year Roger founded the company in Manhattan , New York State . He recruited WP Williams, who was hired to improve the vehicles to make them more suitable for the American roads. The brand name was Roger-American , shortened to Roger from another source .

Roger's death in 1897 led to the company being wound up. In total, only a few vehicles were built.

vehicles

The vehicles were technically based on the Benz patent motor car Victoria . The plan was for one- and two-seater cars, Surrey , Wagonette , Coupé and delivery van .

One vehicle was used in the Cosmopolitan Road Race in 1896 .

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. 1306 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e 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. 1306 (English).
  2. ↑ a b Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry . McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864-0972-3 , pp. 246 (English).