Matheson (automobile)

Matheson Motor Car Company
Company typeAutomobile Manufacturing
IndustryAutomotive
PredecessorHolyoke Automobile Company - Purchased
Founded1903; 121 years ago (1903)
FounderCharles W. Matheson, Frank W. Matheson
Defunct1912; 112 years ago (1912)
FateBankruptcy
SuccessorFactory - Owen Magnetic
Headquarters
Grand Rapids, Michigan, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
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United States
Key people
Charles & Frank Matheson, Charles R. Greuter, L. D. Kenan, A. M. Dean
ProductsVehicles
Automotive parts
Footnotes / references
[1] [2]
1908 Matheson Big Four Landaulette, $6,500

The Matheson was a luxury American automobile manufactured from 1903 to 1912, first in Grand Rapids, Michigan, then Holyoke, Massachusetts and from 1906 in a purpose-built factory in Forty Fort, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.[3][4]

Matheson Motor Car Company president was Charles W. Matheson with Frank F. Matheson serving as Secretary.[5]

  1. ^ Kimes, Beverly Rae; Clark Jr., Henry Austin (1996). Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805-1942 (3rd ed.). Krause Publications. ISBN 978-0-87341-428-9.
  2. ^ Georgano, Nick (2001). The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile (3 vol. ed.). Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. ISBN 1-57958-293-1.
  3. ^ Kimes, Beverly Rae; Clark Jr., Henry Austin (1996). Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805-1942 (3rd ed.). Krause Publications. ISBN 978-0-87341-428-9.
  4. ^ Georgano, Nick (2001). The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile (3 vol. ed.). Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. ISBN 1-57958-293-1.
  5. ^ International Motor Cyclopaedia, Year Book-March 1908 to March 1909, Page 305, Publisher: E.E. Schwarzkopf, New York.