LOOKING FOR LOCATION OF HENCIR MOTORS INC.

HornetSpecial
HornetSpecial Expert Adviser
edited May 2011 in HUDSON
I have a dealership sign from Hencir motors Inc. Would like to know were it was located. The sign was found in Minnesota near the Twin Cities. Hope someone has some knowledge of this dealership.

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  • Unknown
    Unknown
    We have a 1959 Minneapolis, MN telephone book sitting on a bookshelf, so I checked the yellow pages section and found the listing under Rambler Sales & Service: Hencir Motors, Inc., 2616 West Broadway, Minneapolis, MN. Telephone JAksn 2-3349. The only Hudson listing was for a dealer on Lyndale Avenue South. Bill
  • HornetSpecial
    HornetSpecial Expert Adviser
    Thank you much for looking in that phone book By 1959 a lot of the Hudson dealerships had started selling Ramblers. That's who Hudson merged with. Anyway thanks for the info !!
    Paul
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    Can you post a picture of the sign? always love seeing those old signs...
  • HornetSpecial
    HornetSpecial Expert Adviser
    The sign was cracked and is being repaired. I will when I get it back.
  • HornetSpecial
    HornetSpecial Expert Adviser
    O K Here goes a try with a photo. Cool Hudson history.
  • Sarah Young
    Sarah Young Senior Contributor
    edited May 2011
    That's a cool sign! They were in business as a Hudson dealership per this 1948 pamphlet.
  • HornetSpecial
    HornetSpecial Expert Adviser
    That pamphlet is so neat !! Would you be interested in selling it. It would make a nice addition to the sigh for display. I thought I saw that pamphlet selling on E Bay from Spain. Are you the one who bought it ?? Thanks Sara for listing it !!
    Paul
  • Sarah Young
    Sarah Young Senior Contributor
    edited May 2011
    I swiped the pictures off that auction for my dealership website. :) Here's the rest of the brochure...
  • Hudsy Wudsy
    Hudsy Wudsy Senior Contributor
    My '50 Commodore was from Hencir Motors In North Minneapolis. They later merged and became Hencir-Nicholls and went on to sell American Motors Products for a while. I can recall buying Hudsonite from them.
  • Sarah Young
    Sarah Young Senior Contributor
    Hudson308 wrote:
    While talking with Hornet Special about this last week, he shared an invoice from a dealership called "Hudson Minneapolis, Inc" was located at 1412 Harmon Place in downtown Minneapolis. I've been hoping to find the location of that dealership since spotting this trunk badge on a '51 Wasp coupe rotting away in the woods in central Minnesota.

    I have a 1937 photo on my website of the O'Donnel Motor Company at 1416-1420 Harmon Place showing Terraplanes ready to be delivered to the St. Paul Police Dept. This section of street was long ago demolished to become part of the campus for Minneapolis Community & Technical College.

    Click here to go directly to the Minnesota section of my Hudson Dealership Listings.
  • HornetSpecial
    HornetSpecial Expert Adviser
    I have an invoice thst is from Hudson Minneapolis Inc at 1416- 1420 Harmon Place.
    Maybe they changed dealerships names. This is from 1949. I did a satellite search on location. It did not look like it was part of the U of M. Mystery!!
  • HornetSpecial
    HornetSpecial Expert Adviser
    Sarah, I think maybe the Hudson Sales Corp. 4100 Washington Ave might have been overtaken by U of M. 1416-1420 Harmon Place is down town. Possibly you have names at wrong addresses on dealerships??
  • hudsontech
    hudsontech Senior Contributor
    Sure do wish the science weenies would hurry up and perfect the holo-deck (from Star Trek) - then we could replicate these old dealerships, walk thru them, even buy and sell Hudsons, just like they did back-in-the-day!!!!!!!!

    Hudsonly,
    Alex Burr
    Memphis, TN
  • Sarah Young
    Sarah Young Senior Contributor
    Sarah Young wrote:
    I have a 1937 photo on my website of the O'Donnel Motor Company at 1416-1420 Harmon Place showing Terraplanes ready to be delivered to the St. Paul Police Dept. This section of street was long ago demolished to become part of the campus for Minneapolis Community & Technical College.

    I don't know any history on the U of M campus. I never mentioned that.
  • Sarah Young
    Sarah Young Senior Contributor
    It seems that the Hudson Sales Corp building at 4100 Washington Ave. N. is now home to Industrial Lumber and Supply.

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