Williams Motor Carriage Company

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Williams Motor Carriage Company
legal form Company
founding 1906
resolution 1907
Seat Cleveland , Ohio , USA
Branch Automobiles

Williams Motor Carriage Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

On March 7, 1906, the Akron Beacon Journal reported that Harry A. Williams of Akron , Ohio, had developed a very special car. Williams then founded the company in the same city with JF Townsend and other Akron donors. Already in the summer it moved to Cleveland in Ohio. They took over the Blakeslee Electric Automobile Company plant . It was there that the production of automobiles based on the Williams design began. The brand name was Williams .

The vehicle did not prove itself and was quickly discontinued. Instead, electric cars were produced that resembled Blakeslee's cars. Williams left the company. Production ended in 1907. The Byrider Electric Automobile Company took over the plant and continued production under its own brand name.

There was no association with the WL Casaday Manufacturing Company , which used the same brand name in 1905.

vehicles

The first vehicles had a gasoline engine . The bodies were particularly heavy. A new price of 760 US dollars is reported for a runabout . There were also touring cars that cost between $ 3,500 and $ 5,000.

The electric cars were there from 1906 to 1907. They had a chassis with a 180 cm wheelbase . The structure was called Victoria .

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. 427 and p. 1545 (English).
  • George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 1: A-F . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 420 (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. 427 and p. 1545 (English).
  2. ↑ George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 1: A-F . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 420 (English).