Baker (vehicle brand)

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Baker Steam Motor Car and Manufacturing Co. stock dated December 29, 1920

Baker was an American vehicle brand.

Brand history

Hartley O. Baker founded the Baker Steam Motor Car & Manufacturing Company in Denver , Colorado in 1917 . In April 1918 he bought land for a factory in Pueblo , also in Colorado. The production of individual vehicles began. The brand name was Baker . In addition, were steam car repaired by other manufacturers. In 1922 the company was dissolved.

Baker then founded Baker Motors, Inc. in Cleveland , Ohio , later renamed Steam Appliance Corporation . Here, too, at least one vehicle was built in 1925. In 1928 this company was dissolved.

vehicles

Only steam cars were on offer. The first company produced a roadster , one or more touring cars and three trucks .

The second company produced a prototype and an omnibus .

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. 97 (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. 128. (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. 97 (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. 128. (English)