Atterbury Motor Truck Company

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Auto Car Equipment Company
Auto Car Manufacturing Company
Atterbury Motor Car Company
Atterbury Motor Truck Company
legal form Company
founding 1904
resolution 1935
Reason for dissolution Result of the world economic crisis
Seat Buffalo , New York , USA
Branch Motor vehicles

Atterbury Motor Truck Company , previously Auto Car Equipment Company , Auto Car Manufacturing Company, and Atterbury Motor Car Company , was an American manufacturer of motor vehicles .

Company history

Atterbury Motor Truck Company stock January 14, 1913

John B. Corcoran, George W. Atterbury and Elmer B. Olmstead founded the Auto Car Equipment Company to manufacture commercial vehicles in 1903 or 1904 . The headquarters were in Buffalo , New York, United States . In 1907, the first passenger cars were built and marketed as auto cars . Later the company name changed to Auto Car Manufacturing Company and in December 1909 to Atterbury Motor Car Company . The reason given was the likelihood of confusion with the Autocar Company . Between 1908 and 1910 commercial vehicles were offered under the brand name Buffalo , which could also lead to confusion. In 1911 some cars were built again, which were now offered as Atterbury . In March 1912 the name was changed again to Atterbury Motor Truck Company . Truck production did not end until 1935.

vehicles

Atterbury beer truck with Abresch body for Cold Springs Brewery (1913)

The trucks up to 1908 had either gasoline or electric motors . The maximum value is 6 tons, although it remains unclear whether this was the payload or the gross vehicle weight. In addition, buses specified. Buffalo utility vehicles used a uniform chassis. Omnibuses were available with 10 or 20 seats. A little later a transporter with 0.5 shtn and a truck with 2 shtn payload followed. The latter was optionally available with a four or six cylinder engine. In addition, there was a commercial vehicle series with electric drive, another bus, called Model F , and a truck with a 5 shtn payload. The program for 1910 consisted of

  • Buffalo Model K 0.5 sh tn
  • Buffalo Model O 1.0 sh tn Delivery Van
  • Buffalo Model N 2.0 sh tn, engine 40 HP
  • Buffalo Model M 3.0 sh tn, engine 50 HP
  • Buffalo Model S 5.0 sh tn Electric
  • Buffalo Model H omnibus, 20 seats

All Buffalo had solid rubber tires and chain drives.

In late 1910, the brand name was changed back to Atterbury . The trucks had payloads between 1.5 tons and 7 tons. Various petrol engines from Buda , Continental and Lycoming powered the vehicles.

A ten-seat touring car followed in 1911 .

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. 69 and p. 86 (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. 114. (English)
  • Albert Mroz: Illustrated Encyclopedia of American Trucks and Commercial Vehicles. Krause Publications, Iola WI 1996, ISBN 0-87341-368-7 (English)
  • Halwart Schrader , Jan P. Norbye: The truck lexicon. All brands 1900 to today. Schrader Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-613-01837-3 , p. 15 and p. 16.

Web links

Commons : Atterbury Vehicles  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 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. 69 and p. 86 (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. 114. (English)
  3. ^ A b c Albert Mroz: Illustrated Encyclopedia of American Trucks and Commercial Vehicles. Krause Publications, Iola WI 1996, ISBN 0-87341-368-7 , p. 45. (English)
  4. ↑ coachbuilt.com: Brunn Carriage Manufacturing Company. (English)