Vehicle Equipment Company

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Vehicle Equipment Company
legal form Company
founding 1900
resolution 1906
Reason for dissolution Bankrupt
Seat Long Island City , New York , USA
Branch Motor vehicles

Vehicle Equipment Company was an American manufacturer of motor vehicles .

Company history

Arthur H. Havemeyer, Hector H. Havemeyer and Robert Lloyd founded the company in December 1900. The headquarters were initially in Brooklyn , a district of New York City . In 1901 the production of automobiles began . The brand name was VE . The sales ran for the time being through John T. Rainier, until 1905 he founded the Rainier Motor Car Company . On July 5, 1904, a fire destroyed the plant.

The company then moved to Long Island City . Production there continued from 1905. In March 1906 it went bankrupt .

The General Vehicle Company became the successor company.

vehicles

Only electric cars were on offer . The passenger cars had cardan drive . They were available as Brougham , Victoria , Hansom, and Landaulet .

Commercial vehicles were far more important . This included omnibuses for sightseeing and trucks .

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. 1494 (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. 1669 (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. 1494 (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. 1669 (English).