Taunton Automobile Company

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Taunton Automobile Company
legal form Company
founding 1901
resolution 1903
Reason for dissolution Bankrupt
Seat Taunton , Massachusetts , USA
management DL Brownell
Branch Automobiles

Taunton Automobile Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded in 1901 as the successor company of the Taunton Steam Engine Company in Taunton , Massachusetts . DL Brownell as president and Everett S. Cameron, who previously worked as a designer for the Eclipse Automobile Company , were involved. In the same year the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Taunton , possibly Cameron as well . Production ended in 1903. In January 1903 it went bankrupt . A total of around 25 vehicles were manufactured and sold.

In 1904 the Taunton Motor Carriage Company moved into the factory and also produced Taunton automobiles .

vehicles

Only steam cars were on offer . They had a three- cylinder steam engine that powered the rear axle. There was a choice of runabouts and touring cars . The new price was $ 1000 each .

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. 1453 (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. 1576 (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. 1453 (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. 1576 (English).