Akron Two-Cycle Automobile Company

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Akron Two-Cycle Automobile Company
legal form Company
founding 1905
resolution 1905
Seat Akron , Ohio , USA
management Albert M. Woodruff
Branch Automobiles , engines

Akron Two-Cycle Automobile Company was a US-American manufacturer of automobiles and engines .

Company history

Albert M. Woodruff, who previously ran the Woodruff Automobile Company , founded the company in 1905. Its headquarters were at 65 West Market Street in Akron , Ohio . He mainly produced two-stroke engines . He also made four passenger cars. The brand name was Akron . Production ended in the same year. Woodruff died in 1909.

vehicles

The only model had a two-stroke engine made in-house. All vehicles were open touring cars .

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. 22 (English).
  • George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 1: A-F . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 23 (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. 22 (English).
  2. ↑ George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 1: A-F . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 23 (English).