Viqueot Company

Viqueot Company
legal form	Company
founding	1905
resolution	1906
Reason for dissolution	Parent company bankruptcy
Seat	Long Island City , New York , USA
management	Hector H. Havemeyer
Branch	Automobiles

Viqueot Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded in 1905 in Long Island City , New York State . It belonged to the Vehicle Equipment Company . Hector H. Havemeyer directed it. In the same year the production of automobiles began. There was also a plant in Puteaux in France . The brand name was Viqueot . Production ended in 1906 when the Vehicle Equipment Company went bankrupt .

vehicles

The chassis were manufactured in France and then the bodies were manufactured and assembled in the USA. There was a choice of two different four-cylinder engines . They were specified with 28/32 hp and 40/45 hp. They drove the rear axle via a three-speed gearbox and two chains. The chassis was 284 cm.

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. 1503 (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. 1683 (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. 1503 (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. 1683 (English).