Albaugh-Dover Company

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Albaugh-Dover Company
legal form Corporation
founding 1910
resolution 1924
Reason for dissolution reorganization
Seat Chicago , Illinois , USA
management Gilbert R. Albaugh
Branch Automobiles , tractors , agricultural machinery , gears

Albaugh-Dover Company was an American manufacturer of highwheelers - automobiles , tractors, and agricultural machinery . Brand names were Aldo for the automobiles and Square Turn for the tractors.

The Chicago , Illinois company was founded in 1910 to manufacture the Aldo highwheeler . Gilbert R. Albaugh was an experienced designer who previously for the Thomas B. Jeffery Company in Kenosha (Wisconsin) , the Olds Motor Works in Lansing (Michigan) and the Peerless Motor Car Corporation in Cleveland (Ohio) had worked. He then designed the Star, built from 1902 to 1904 , by the Star Automobile Company, also based in Cleveland . In early 1904, he replaced Walter Lorenzo Marr (1865–1941) as chief engineer at the Reid Manufacturing Company in Detroit . He revised his design of the Wolverine , which was built from 1904 to 1906 , while Marr resumed his previous position as chief engineer of Buick .

Aldo

The only car model of the Albaugh-Dover Company was the Aldo , very typical for highwheelers , which was only built in 1910 and sold until early 1911. The brand name is composed of the first letters of the surname of the owner: Al baugh and Do ver. The vehicle was an extremely simply constructed, carriage -like motorized buggy for two people. The air-cooled two-cylinder engine made 12 hp (according to NACC) from 106.9 ci (1752 cm³). The power was transmitted via a planetary gear and a drive chain on each rear wheel. Steering using a lever instead of a steering wheel was an outdated design feature. The wheelbase was 76 inches (1930 mm), the huge carriage wheels with wooden spokes were 36 × 1.5 inches (914 × 38 mm). The vehicle was right-hand drive .

After all, the Aldo seems to have placed more value than usual on the choice of materials and quality; the buggy cost 395  $ , significantly more than simple Highwheel buggies like the Success Model A with single-cylinder engine and only one drive chain (on the right rear wheel) to $ 250.

The time the production stopped coincides with the start of the short hype about the cycle cars . In addition, the manufacturer seems to have struggled to sell enough vehicles at the price mentioned.

Square Turn Tractor Company

Square Turn Tractor Company stock dated December 20, 1917

There is hardly any information available about the time after the end of production of the Aldo . The company appears to have made gears and cream centrifuges quite successfully , investing $ 30,000 in an extension in 1916 for this purpose.

In December 1917, the Albaugh-Dover Company took over the ailing tractor manufacturer Kennell-Colwell in Norfolk (Nebraska) . The company was renamed the Square Turn Tractor Company and apparently operated as a subsidiary ; the tractor was marketed as the Albaugh-Dover "Square Turn" .

The tractor was a rather strange piece of equipment. It was designed as a tricycle with a massive four-cylinder engine over the rear axle and a small, steered front wheel. The driver sat immediately behind the front wheel and steered with a steering wheel; a conventional truck radiator loomed directly behind him. The engine was a Climax Type K from Climax Engineering Company in Clinton (Iowa) (not related to Coventry-Climax !) With a 5 × 6½ inch bore / stroke (127 mm / 165.1 mm), resulting in a displacement of 510.5 ci or 8466 cc. The performance was given as 18-35 HP; i.e. 18 HP (NACC) from the drawbar and 35 HP from the belt-operated PTO shaft . The engine could run on gasoline or kerosene.

For the drive train, the manufacturer chose the name Giant Grip Drive and emphasized that there was no slipping clutch and no susceptible gearbox. There is no information on this, but this suggests that the power was transmitted by means of friction gears .

Using the included in the basic price of 1,875 $ Oliver - plow , the tractor weighed 7800 lb (3540 kg). The company made a point of finding that the tractor could only be operated by one person, which didn't seem obvious.

In 1924 Albaugh-Dover ran into trouble. A group of investors from among the previous shareholders took over the company and reorganized it as the Albaugh-Dover Manufacturing Company in 1924 after a capital injection of $ 200,000 . The production of gears and centrifuges continued thereafter; however, the Nebraska tractor factory was forcibly sold in 1925 by order of the sheriff's office . The sheriff was also responsible for the implementation of court orders at the time.

Remarks

  1. ↑ NACC = National Automobile Chamber of Commerce , this was the predecessor formula for SAE-PS .

literature

  • George Nick Georgano (Editor), G. Marshall Naul: Complete Encyclopedia of Commercial Vehicles. MBI Motor Books International, Osceola WI 1979, ISBN 0-87341-024-6 .
  • Robert D. Dluhy: American Automobiles of the Brass Era: Essential Specifications of 4,000+ Gasoline Powered Passenger Cars, 1906-1915, with a Statistical and Historical Overview. Mcfarland & Co Inc 2013, ISBN 0-78647-136-0 , ISBN 978-078647-136-2 .
  • Beverly Rae Kimes: Pioneers, Engineers, and Scoundrels: The Dawn of the Automobile in America. Published by SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) Permissions, Warrendale PA 2005, ISBN 0-7680-1431-X .
  • Albert Mroz: Illustrated Encyclopedia of American Trucks and Commercial Vehicles. Krause Publications, Iola WI 1996, ISBN 0-87341-368-7 , ISBN 978-0-87341-368-8 .
  • Walter MP McCall: Illustrated Encyclopedia of American Fire Engine Manufacturers. Iconografix, Inc., Hudson WI 2009, ISBN 1-58388-252-9 , ISBN 978-158388-252-8 .
  • Fred Crismon: Fire Engines. Crestline series, MBI Motor Books International, Osceola WI 1997, ISBN 0-7603-0381-9 .
  • Charles H. Wendel: Standard Catalog of Farm Tractors 1890-1980. 2nd Edition. Krause Publications, Iola WI 2005, ISBN 0-87349-726-0 , ISBN 978-0-87349-726-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Kimes / Clark: Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805-1942 (1996), p. 1383.
  2. ^ Nick Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Stationery Office, London 2000, ISBN 0117023191 , p. 1792.
  3. ^ Dluhy: American Automobiles of the Brass Era (2013), p. 55.
  4. ↑ Kimes / Clark: Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805-1942 (1996), p. 1448.
  5. ^ Albaugh-Dover Butterfly cream separator . In: The Antique Cream Separator Gallery and Info Site . Retrieved July 19, 2015.
  6. ↑ a b c d e Wendel: Standard Catalog of Farm Tractors 1890-1980 (2005), p. 647 (Square Turn).
  7. ↑ Wendel: Standard Catalog of Farm Tractors 1890-1980 (2005), p. 33 (Albaugh-Dover).
  8. ↑ a b c d e Jim McKee: Square Turn Tractor is a Nebraska original . In: JournalStar.com . Retrieved July 19, 2015.
  9. ^ A b c Waukesha Engine Historical Society: The Waukesha / Climax Connection .