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1909 Maxwell Model A	1909 Maxwell Model A 1909 Maxwell Model A Forney Museum of Transportation in Denver, Colorado Website: www.forneymuseum.com Photo By: Douglas Wilkinson by Douglas
1917 Maxwell Touring	1917 Maxwell Touring 1917 Maxwell Touring Photo By: Douglas Wilkinson Location: The Museum of Automobiles located in Petit Jean Mountain State Park near Morrilton, Arkansas. by Douglas
1910 Maxwell Model Q Touring	1910 Maxwell Model Q Touring 1910 Maxwell Model Q Touring Antique Automobile Club of America Museum (AACA) in Hershey, Pennsylvania Website: www.aacamuseum.org Photos by Douglas Wilkinson by Douglas
1913 Maxwell 5-Pass. Touring Model 40 For Sale	1913 Maxwell 5-Pass. Touring Model 40 For Sale 54,900.00 USD 1913 Maxwell 5-Pass. Touring Model 40 For Sale $54,900 1913 MAXWELL MODEL 40 FIVE PASSENGER TOURING CAR. A GREAT TOUR CAR! HUGE 36X4 TIRES! Year 1913 Make Maxwell 5-Pass. Touring Model Model 40 VIN 11001 9 Engine 40 HP Cylinders 4 Cylinder Transmission Three Speed Manual Color Blue Interior Color Black Conglomerates have been with us since the earliest days of automobiling, and this lovely Maxwell serves as a reminder of one of the earliest, U.S. Motors. Jonathan Maxwell started building the cars named after him in 1904 and quickly set a standard in the industry. In partnership with Benjamin Briscoe, the Maxwell-Briscoe both of New York became one of the members of the mighty U.S. Motors group, which also included Columbia electric cars, Stoddard-Dayton and Courier cars, Sampson trucks and the little singe-cylinder Brush runabout auto. The huge corporation came apart in 1913 and Maxwell, now without its originators, was able to reorganize and continue in production. The Maxwell, by the way, is still with us; it became the Chrysler Corporation and early Chryslers were strongly based on the old Maxwell design. The Maxwell offered here is a older restoration that has been well maintained and a car to be proud of. The car has been a excellent vehicle to tour with. It runs and drives well. With its 36X4 tires and 40HP motor it runs and drives with the best of them. With the car standing just over 7-feet tall it is very impressive. This is a quality brass car at a affordable price. St. Louis Car Museum Website: www.stlouiscarmuseum.com Email: info@stlouiscarmuseum.com Financing Is Available--Trades Are Accepted! Please call 1-800-957-5707 or 314-993-7104 with any questions or to discuss financing or transportation arrangements. by Douglas
1908 Maxwell HC 18/20 Runabout	1908 Maxwell HC 18/20 Runabout 20,900.00 USD Offered For Sale at the: RM Auction - Vintage Motor Cars at Meadow Brook Hall August 6, 2005, Auburn Hills, Michigan RM Auctions One Classic Car Drive Blenheim, Ontario N0P 1A0 Canada Phone: 519-352-4575 Website: www.rmauctions.com 1908 Maxwell HC 18/20 Runabout LOT: 030 Chassis No. 3127 Sold at a price of $20,900 18/20hp two-cylinder opposed engine, two-speed planetary transmission with shaft-drive, leaf spring and solid axle front suspension, live axle leaf spring rear axle and rear wheel braking. Wheelbase: 90" In 1903, convinced he was backing the wrong builder in David Dunbar Buick, Benjamin Briscoe, with two-thirds of the $150,000 needed coming from associate J. P. Morgan, decided to build the two-cylinder car created by Jonathan Maxwell. Ten were built in 1904, rising to 823 more in 1905. In 1906 Maxwell won a survey conducted in the Journal of the American Medical Association. It was the car of choice and Maxwell promptly added a “doctor’s” model based on the specifications requested by physicians making house calls. The Maxwell was also one of the first shaft-driven cars to become a top seller. The Maxwell was fitted with a sliding-gear transmission that made it necessary for the driver to pass through second gear when going from low to high gear and vice versa. Maxwell’s continued popularity resulted in sales reaching 4,455 units and ranking fourth in the industry in 1908. In the past Maxwell automobiles had performed well in the Glidden Tours, but a change in the rules favored more powerful makes, such as Pierce-Arrow. As a result Maxwell took out ads stating, “…we challenge the winner of the Glidden Tour to an endurance race from New York to San Francisco…Winner to dispose of $5,000 purse.” The challenge was not accepted, but such was the confidence of the makers in the Maxwell. Elsewhere, in a light car race before the 1908 Grand Prix event, a team of five Maxwell cars finished 6th through 10th against far more powerful competitors. The beautifully restored example presented here is fitted with all the brass accoutrements of the era. These gleaming brass fittings and optional equipment set this already exceptional Maxwell Runabout apart from the crowd. Its sporty runabout body in red with its rich black leather upholstery and carriage-like black top hearken back to a time when show was more important than go. There is no problem with go in this Maxwell as its robust, reliable two-cylinder has been completely rebuilt. An early Maxwell slogan was, “There’s nothing to do but ride.” That is how it is with this fully restored 1908 Maxwell HC 18/20 Runabout, painted top to bottom and detailed for pride of show. The little two-cylinder Maxwell requires only a driver and companion fashionably dressed in clothes of the period. by Douglas

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Maxwell-Briscoe Motor Company
Tarrytown, NY

The Maxwell resulted because Benjamin Briscoe, with a properous sheet metal manufacturing plant in Detroit, was convinced that the automobile David Buick was trying to build would never amount to anything. In 1903 Briscoe met Jonathan D. Maxwell, an engineer with experience from Olds and Northern car companies. In order to launch the Maxwell-Briscoe Motor Company, Briscoe convinced financier J.P. Morgan to provied two-thirds of the needed $150,000 initial investment.

Maxwell designed a little car featuring a two-cyclinder water-cooled engine mounted up front under a hood, a honeycomb radiator with thermo-syphon cooling, a two-speed planetary gearset, a shaft drive and right-hand steering wheel. The two-passenger tourabout would be priced at $750.00.

In 1904 the company produced 10 cars and in their second year, 1905, built 823 cars and trucks. Maxwell was a significant manufacture of automobiles in America in the early 20th-century. In 1910 Maxwell, with production of 20,500 vehicles, ranked third in U.S. sales behind Ford and Buick. In 1917 the company built its 100,000th car.

The Maxwell cars earned a solid reputation through solid performances in many early reliability tours. In 1909 a Maxwell was driven from New York City to San Francisco, an almost unheard of event prior to that time.

Briscoe left the company in 1912 to form his own company and Maxwell continued building cars, moving the plant to Detroit and changing the company name to Maxwell Motor Corporation.

By 1924 Walter P. Chrysler had become president of the Maxwell-Chalmers organization. In mid-1925 Chrysler Corporation was founded.

The last Maxwell was built in 1925 and ultimately becoming the Plymouth brand in 1928.

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