which ended with bankruptcy in 1907. The patent was valid until 1913, but lost its worth as the appellation court reduced it to vehicles with Brayton engines, of which none was used in a motor vehicle. See also Columbia Automobile Company Electric Vehicle List of defunct United States automobile manufacturers Notes References David A. Kirsch: The Electric Vehicle and the Burden of History. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick NJ/ London 2000, Ernest Henry Wakefield: History of the Electric Automobile; Battery-Only Powered Cars. edited by SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers). Warrendale PA 1970, James J. Flink: America Adopts the Automobile - 1895–1910. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1970, James J. Flink, The Automobile Age (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988). G. N. Georgano (editor): Complete Encyclopedia of Motorcars, 1885 to the Present. 2nd edition. Dutton Press, New York 1973, External links The Selden Motor Wagon Photos of the vehicle, plus articles about the gestation of the patent and the lengthy lawsuit which followed secondchancegarage.com: The Columbia Car: Reliable, Simple to Operate and Ready for Action - Page 3: To The Electric Vehicle Trust (retrieved, 7 August 2014) The Automobile of 1904; Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly (January 1904), Americana Review, 725 Dongan Ave., Scotia NY (USA); published, 1904, deckt auch Importe ab (English) Encyclopædia Britannica: Hiram Percy Maxim (English) (retrieved, 7 August 2014) kcstudio.com: A.L. Riker - The early story in brief as it directly relates to the history of the Pope Manufacturing Company, the Electric Vehicle Company, and the Columbia cars (English) (retrieved, 4 January 2016) kcstudio.com: Charging up the electric cabs; Zeitungsberichte 1896–1898 (English) (retrieved, 4 January 2016) Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1897 Vehicle manufacturing companies disestablished in 1907 1897 establishments in New York City 1907 disestablishments in New York (state) Electric vehicle manufacturers of the United States Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of the United States Patent monetization companies of the United States Motor vehicle manufacturers based in New York (state) Defunct manufacturing companies based in New York City