Union Electric Company

Union Electric Company
legal form	Company
founding	1899
resolution	1899
Seat	Portland , Maine , USA
Branch	Automobiles

Union Electric Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles . Another source uses the name Union Electric Vehicle Company .

Company history

The company was founded in Portland , Maine in 1899 . In the same year the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Union . Production ended in 1899. In total, only a few vehicles were built.

Other US manufacturers of passenger cars of the brand Union were Union Automobile Company , Union Automobile Manufacturing Company , Union Carriage Company , Union Sales Company and Union Automobile Company .

vehicles

Vehicles with different types of engines were announced. Thus, electric motors , steam engines , gasoline engines , engines with the fuel naphtha and engines called for compressed air. The latter engine should become the most important. Many of these announcements were not implemented. The new prices started at 200 US dollars .

A second source only mentions electric cars .

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. 1486 (English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} 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. 1486 (English).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry . McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864-0972-3 , pp. 290 (English).