Townsend (automobile manufacturer)

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Townsend
legal form
founding 1905
resolution 1905
Seat Winchendon , Massachusetts , USA
management Guy G. Townsend
Branch Automobiles

Townsend was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Guy G. Townsend lived in Winchendon , Massachusetts . There he manufactured three vehicles in 1905, of which he sold two. The brand name was Townsend .

vehicles

The first vehicle had an engine with 4 hp . Guy Townsend kept it to himself.

Waldo E. Padelford from the same town accepted a vehicle with the same engine power.

Fred H. Holmes was also from Winchendon. His vehicle had an engine with 4.5 hp. The superstructures have not survived.

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. 1476 (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. 1476 (English).
  2. ↑ Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry . McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864-0972-3 , pp. 285 (English).