Russell Motor Vehicle Company

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Russell Motor Vehicle Company
legal form Company
founding 1902
resolution 1904
Seat Cleveland , Ohio , USA
Branch Automobiles

Russell Motor Vehicle Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

EL Russell had developed a prototype in 1902 . In November of the same year he founded the company together with business people FL Langer and CE Thompson. The seat was in Cleveland , Ohio . Automobile production began in the summer of 1903. The brand name was Russell . Production ended in 1904. In total, only a few vehicles were built.

vehicles

The vehicle had a small four-cylinder engine with 6 hp . It drove the rear axle via a cardan shaft . The structure was a stanhope with space for two people. The original price was 800 US dollars .

The specialty was the service. A lever served as a starter and to select both forward and reverse gears. Was steered with a steering wheel.

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. 1315 (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. 1389 (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. 1315 (English).
  2. ↑ 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. 1389 (English).