Editing American Motors Corporation (section)

== Earlier use of the name ==
The era of 1900 until 1925 saw various corporations, in several [[U.S. state]]s, use similar "American" names, such as American Motor Carriage Company (Ohio, 1902–1903), American Automobile Manufacturing Company (Indiana, 1911–1912), and American Motors Incorporated (New York, 1919–1920).<ref>{{cite book|first=Lou |last=Phillips |year=2011 |title=Cars: 1895–1965|isbn=978-1-4568-9294-4|pages=55–62 |publisher=Xlibris Corporation |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=XLS3UagARgwC&pg=PA56}}</ref> In 1916, an earlier "American Motors Corporation", apparently unrelated to the more famous later corporation of the same name, was formed in [[Newark, New Jersey]], with [[Louis Chevrolet]] as vice president and chief engineer.<ref>{{cite journal |date=March 1, 1916 |title=American Motors Corporation formed |journal=Automobile Trade Journal |volume=20 |issue=9 |page=108 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=zqgyAQAAMAAJ&q=American+Motors+Corporation+formed&pg=PA108}}</ref> By 1918, it was producing cars in a plant at [[Plainfield, New Jersey]].<ref>{{cite magazine|date=May 15, 1918 |title=American Motors Corporation advertisement |magazine=Horseless Age |volume=44 |issue=4 |page=7 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=JFbmAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA10-PA41}}</ref> In 1923, it merged with the Bessemer Motor Truck Company of Pennsylvania into Bessemer–American Motors Corporation, which lasted less than a year before merging with the [[Winther (automobile)|Winther]] and Northway companies into Amalgamated Motors. The latter company ceased soon after.