Arrow Motor Buggy Company

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Arrow Motor Buggy Company
legal form Company
founding 1907
resolution 1907
Seat St. Louis , Missouri , USA
Branch Automobiles

Arrow Motor Buggy Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded in 1907 in St. Louis , Missouri . It made automobiles that were marketed as Arrow . Production ended in the same year.

There was no association with the National United Service Company and the MC Whitmore Company , which used the same brand name.

vehicles

The only model was a high wheeler , i.e. a vehicle with particularly large wheels and high ground clearance for the bad roads of the time. A two-cylinder engine drove the rear axle via a chain. The open body offered space for two people. Advertisements claimed that the vehicle was so easy to use that even a child could drive it. The original price was 250 US dollars . For comparison: the Ford Model N cost 600 dollars in the same year in the cheapest version.

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. 64 (English).
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 1: A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 79. (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. 64 (English).
  2. George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 79. (English)