Triumph Motor Vehicle Company

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Triumph Motor Vehicle Company
legal form Company
founding 1900
resolution 1901
Seat Chicago , Illinois , USA
Branch Automobiles

Triumph Motor Vehicle Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded in Chicago , Illinois in June 1900 . In the same year the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Triumph . In February 1901, plans for a new factory in Kankakee were announced, which apparently were no longer implemented. Production ended in 1901. In total, only a few vehicles were built.

There was no association with Triumph Motor Car Company , which used the same brand name a few years later.

vehicles

Electric cars were on offer . The setup was a stanhope .

Triumph was willing to customized steam car or vehicles with gasoline engines produce. As far as is known, no such vehicles were made.

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. 1480 (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. 1612 (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. 1480 (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. 1612 (English).