1907 Maxwell

1907 Maxwell Tourabout
Car owner, Richard Baril
Photo by Ozzie Sweet

The Maxwell was a well built handsome automobile for its time, with a good reputation for reliability. In 1903 Benjamin Briscoe, an investor in the Buick automobile, was convinced that the Buick would not amount to anything and he sold his stock in the company to team up with an engineer named Jonathan Maxwell to build their own car. As it turned out we see that the Maxwell didn't last while the Buick is still doing good. This car has a 2 cylinder, 12 horsepower horizontally opposed engine with mechanically operated inlet valves. it had a honeycomb radiator with thermal syphon cooling, a two speed gearshift, a drive shaft instead of gears and chain and right hand steering.