The McCue Company

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The McCue Company
legal form Company
founding 1900s
resolution 1911
Reason for dissolution fusion
Seat Hartford , Connecticut , USA
management Charles T. McCue
Branch vehicles

The McCue Company was an American manufacturer of vehicles .

Company history

The company was founded shortly after 1900 in Hartford , Connecticut . At first it made carriages . In 1908 parts for automobiles were added. Complete automobiles were produced from 1909 onwards. The brand name was McCue . Many of the parts came from the Billings & Spencer Company . The Parker Motor Company from the same city provided many of the engines. The sales figures were low. Production ended in 1911. Charles T. McCue was president and FC Billings vice president at the time.

In the late summer of 1911 there was a merger with the Superior Axle & Forge Company from Buffalo . The new company McCue Manufacturing Company introduced axles for passenger cars and trucks ago. Charles T. McCue gave up his presidential post in 1913. In the late summer of 1913, it was taken over by the Houk Wire Wheel Company .

vehicles

In 1909 the range consisted of three models. What they had in common was the four-cylinder engine with 30 hp , the three-speed gearbox and cardan drive . In Model C which amounted wheelbase cm 295th The structure was an open touring car . The Model D as a gentleman's roadster was 297 cm wheelbase. The Model F was a 274 cm wheelbase runabout .

From 1910 to 1911 there were two models. The four-cylinder engine developed 40 hp. The chassis had a uniform 312 cm wheelbase. Model 6 was bodied as a four-seat torpedo and Model XXX as a five-seat touring car.

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1909 Model C 4th 30th 295 Touring car
1909 Model D 4th 30th 297 Gentlemen's Roadster
1909 Model F 4th 30th 274 Runabout
1910-1911 Model 6 4th 40 312 Torpedo 4-seater
1910-1911 Model XXX 4th 40 312 5-seater touring car

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. 947 (English).
  • George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 2: G-O . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 987 (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. 947 (English).
  2. ↑ George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 2: G-O . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 987 (English).
  3. ↑ 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. 1152 (English).