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Tennant Motor Limited
legal form Limited
founding 1907
resolution 1916 or later
Seat Chicago , Illinois , USA
management Flat share Tennant
Branch Automobiles

Tennant Motor Limited was an American car dealer and at times manufacturer of automobiles . The spellings Tennant Motors Company and Tennant Motors Limited in two sources are refuted by an advertisement from 1916.

Company history

WG Tennant founded the company in Chicago , Illinois in 1907 . He sold Marmon and Peerless cars . In 1914 the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Tennant . Production ended in 1915. An advertisement from 1916 has survived. Then the track of the company is lost.

vehicles

Only one model was on offer. It had a four-cylinder engine that was specified with 30/35 hp . There was a choice of a roadster with two seats and an open touring car with five seats.

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. 1456 (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. 1580 (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. 1456 (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. 1580 (English).
  3. ↑ Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry . McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864-0972-3 , pp. 281 (English).
  4. ↑ Advertisement from 1916 (English, accessed March 23, 2019)