He graduated from the Technical School in Malmo, and emigrated to the United States via Canada shortly thereafter.

[1] Henry Nyberg and investors bought the Rider-Lewis automobile factory and equipment in Anderson, Indiana.

[2][1] The factory built a racing car which Harry Endicott qualified and drove in the 1913 Indianapolis 500.

[2] In February of 1912, a manufacturing plant was established and a separate organization of the Nyberg Automobile Works was set up for Chattanooga.

Production did not resume under Barley and in February 1915 Henry Nyberg purchased the Anderson factory.

[1] In March of 1915, Henry Nyberg allied himself with Cecil Gibson, who had been associated with the Empire automobile from Indianapolis.

The venture never received sufficient funding and in the early spring of 1919, Madison Motors was taken over by the Bull Tractor Company.