The American Napier was an
automobile
A car or automobile is a motor vehicle with wheels. Most definitions of ''cars'' say that they run primarily on roads, seat one to eight people, have four wheels, and mainly transport people instead of goods.
The year 1886 is regarded ...
sold by the Napier Motor Car Company of America from 1904 until 1912.
Initially, the company imported assembled
Napiers from England. From late 1904 the cars were assembled under licence in
Jamaica Plain
Jamaica Plain is a neighborhood of in the City of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Settled by Puritans seeking farmland to the south, it was originally part of the former Town of Roxbury, now also a part of the City of Boston. The commu ...
, a section of
Boston, Massachusetts, in a building formerly used by the
B.F. Sturtevant Company. The cars were offered with both American and British built
coachwork
A coachbuilder or body-maker is someone who manufactures bodies for passenger-carrying vehicles.Construction has always been a skilled trade requiring a relatively lightweight product with sufficient strength. The manufacture of necessarily ...
.
History
In 1907 the company experienced financial problems and production was halted.
In 1909 a new company took over and production restarted in March that year. This lasted until 1911 when the
Napier Motor Company Napier may refer to:
People
* Napier (surname), including a list of people with that name
* Napier baronets, five baronetcies and lists of the title holders
Given name
* Napier Shaw (1854–1945), British meteorologist
* Napier Waller (1893� ...
took over the interests, but this venture barely lasted a year.
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References
History of Massachusetts
Brass Era vehicles
Veteran vehicles
1900s cars
1910s cars
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