Webster Automobile Company

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Webster Automobile Company
legal form Company
founding 1902
resolution 1903
Seat New York City , New York , USA
Branch Automobiles

Webster Automobile Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded in New York City in 1902 . The office was in Greenwich Village , a part of Manhattan . In the same year the production of automobiles began in cooperation with the Frank Mossberg Company . The brand name was Webster . Production ended in 1903. A total of five or six vehicles were built.

The successor company was the United States Auto-Motor Company .

vehicles

Only one model was on offer. It had a four-cylinder engine with 16 hp . The engine power was transmitted to the rear axle via a three-speed gearbox and a cardan shaft . Depending on the source, the structure was either a runabout or a tonneau . One illustration is labeled Touring and shows a tonneau.

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. 1525 (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. 1728 (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. 1525 (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. 1728 (English).