Saurer Motor Company
The Saurer Motor Company in Plainfield ( New Jersey ) was an American commercial vehicle manufacturer that manufactured trucks under a license from the former Swiss manufacturer Adolph Saurer AG . The company went into the Mack Trucks Inc. on.
CP Coleman acquired the license to replicate the Saurer truck in 1911 and built production facilities in Plainfield (New Jersey). One of the main investors was the JP Morgan bank which also held shares in the Mack Brothers Motor Car Company . At his instigation, both companies were merged on September 23, 1911 to form the International Motor Truck Company . The share capital amounted to 2.6 million US dollars . Both stamps were retained for the time being; the holding company coordinated their sales. Coleman also remained managing director of Mack until 1913.
Another reorganization took place in 1922. Saurer was given up, Mack became Mack Truck, Inc. The International Mack Truck Company was founded to sell the Mack Trucks, the management of which was entrusted to Robert Edison Fulton, the long-time Saurer sales manager and Vice President of the International Motor Truck Company, until 1935.
literature
- George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.), G. Marshall Naul: Complete Encyclopedia of Commercial Vehicles. MBI Motor Books International, Osceola WI, 1979; ISBN 0-87341-024-6 .
- Albert Mroz: Illustrated Encyclopedia of American Trucks and Commercial Vehicles ; Krause Publications, Iola WI (1996); ISBN 0-87341-368-7 .
- John A. Gunnell (Ed.): Standard Catalog of American Light Duty Trucks, 1896-1986. MBI Motor Books International, Osceola WI, 2nd edition, 1993; ISBN 0-87341-238-9 .
- Charles H. Wendel: Standard Catalog of Farm Tractors 1890-1980. Krause Publications, Iola WI, 2005; ISBN 0-87349-726-0 .
- McClure's Magazine: Automobile Year Book 1917-1918. McClure Publications, New York, 1917. (Page 181, Saurer Model L 5 tn truck)
- National Automobile Chamber of Commerce ; Inc. (NACC): Handbook of Automobiles 1915-1916. Dover Publications, Inc .; Reprint; 1970.