Backus Water Motor Company

Backus Water Motor Company
legal form	Company
founding	1870s
resolution	?
Seat	Newark , New Jersey , USA
Branch	Engines , automobiles

Backus Water Motor Company was an American manufacturer of engines and automobiles .

Company history

Rodman and Oscar J. Backus founded the company in the early 1870s. The seat was in Newark , New Jersey . They made engines from the 1880s. In February 1903, a vehicle was presented for the first time at an exhibition in New York City . The brand name was Backus . In 1904 the car production ended. It is unknown when the company, renamed Backus Manufacturing Company in 1893 , was dissolved.

vehicles

The only surviving model was a runabout . A single-cylinder engine with 10 hp powered the vehicle. Was steered with a steering lever. The vehicle could be started from the seat. The original price was 1,100 US dollars . For comparison, the Ford Model A with a two-cylinder engine was only $ 850. One source thinks that the price was way too high and therefore it was not successful.

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. 94 (English).

Web links

• www.waterworkshistory.us

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. 94 (English).
2. ↑ BACKUS WATER MOTOR COMPANY, Newark, NJ ( Memento of the original from June 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English, accessed on September 16, 2017)