Acme Motor Car Company (Massachusetts)

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Acme Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1911
resolution ?
Seat Worcester , Massachusetts , USA
management
  • Ernest Wheeler
  • William Vincent
Branch Automobiles

Acme Motor Car Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded in Worcester , Massachusetts in late 1911 . Ernest Wheeler and William Vincent ran it. Wheeler had previously made automobiles as Wheeler . At first they only sold vehicles from other manufacturers. These include passenger vehicles from Knox and Velie, as well as delivery vans , trucks and tractors . In 1912 they made refined vehicles for local buyers. The brand name was Acme . It is not known when the company was dissolved.

There was no connection to the Pennsylvania company of the same name , which operated from 1903 to 1911.

vehicles

The only model was based on a Knox or Velie vehicle.

literature

  • Beverly Rae Kimes, Henry Austin Clark Jr .: Standard catalog of American Cars. 1805-1942. Digital edition . 3. Edition. Krause Publications, Iola 2013, ISBN 978-1-4402-3778-2 , pp. 16 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Beverly Rae Kimes, Henry Austin Clark Jr .: Standard catalog of American Cars. 1805-1942. Digital edition . 3. Edition. Krause Publications, Iola 2013, ISBN 978-1-4402-3778-2 , pp. 16 (English).