Nash Motors Company Records
1890-1938
Title: Nash Motors Company Records
Dates: 1890-1938
Collection Number: GC 1344
Creator/Collector:
Thomas B. Jeffery Company
Nash Motors Company
Extent: (Boxes: 5 legal, 14 letter, 6 1/2 letter, 1 record storage)
Repository:
Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Abstract: The records of the Thomas B. Jeffery Company of Kenosha, Wisconsin and its successor company, the Nash Motors Company of Maryland.
Notable are clippings, correspondence, patent records and lawsuit records beginning in 1902 for challenges by George B. Selden’s
patent to automobile manufacturers. 1890-1938
Language of Material: English
Research is by appointment only
Permission to publish, quote or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder
Nash Motors Company Records. Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Biography/Administrative History
Jeffery produced its first automobile in the U.S. in 1902. In 1916 the Jeffery Company was sold to the Nash Motors Company
which moved its headquarters to Kenosha.
Scope and Content of Collection
The records of the Thomas B. Jeffery Company of Kenosha, Wisconsin and its successor company, the Nash Motors Company of Maryland.
Notable are clippings, correspondence, patent records and lawsuit records beginning in 1902 for challenges by George B. Selden’s
patent to automobile manufacturers. 1890-1938
Automobile industry and trade.