Maxwell automobile
Maxwell Motor Company was an American automobile manufacturer who produced 1904 to 1925 cars.
History
The car brand started as the Maxwell - Briscoe Company of Tarrytown, New York. The company was named after its founders Jonathan Dixon Maxwell, who had previously worked at Oldsmobile and Benjamin Briscoe. Among the investors was JP Morgan, which accounted for two-thirds of the original share capital of 150,000 U.S. dollars. Ironically, Briscoe 's motive for the founding of the company his distrust of its own investment: he had put into the money of David Dunbar Buick automobile project, however, lost faith and retired.
Maxwell was founded in 1910 Group United States Motor Company, the only profitable company. However, due to a conflict between two of its shareholders, the company failed in 1913.
1913, the Maxwell assets were purchased by Walter Flanders, who reorganized the company as the Maxwell Motor Company, Inc., but in Dayton, Ohio, there was a branch plant. For a while Maxwell was one of the top three vehicle manufacturers in the United States, in addition Buick and Ford Motor Company.
The growth of Maxwell, however, was too strong, too much debt the company, and half of the production capacity has been in recession not be used after the First World War. In 1921, Walter Percy Chrysler was able to take a controlling interest in Maxwell. The company was refounded in West Virginia; Chrysler was CEO. Around the same time the merger was operated with the ailing car manufacturers Chalmers; the production of Chalmers was discontinued in 1923.
In 1925, Walter Chrysler, Chrysler Motors Corporation. The Maxwell - car brand ran out; the assets of Maxwell were incorporated into Chrysler. The design of the Maxwell went a Chrysler in the 1926 newly introduced four-cylinder cars. The year 1928 brought a further revision, the first Plymouth models.
Models
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Swell
- Kimes, Beverly Rae and Clark, Henry Austin, Jr. 1999. Standard Catalogue of American Cars, 1805-1942 (Second Edition). Krause Publications, Inc. ISBN 0-87341-111-0.