Buckeye Wagon & Motor Car Company

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Buckeye Wagon Company
Buckeye Wagon & Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1904
resolution after 1911
Seat Dayton , Ohio , USA
management Charles Anderson
Branch Automobiles

Buckeye Wagon & Motor Car Company , previously Buckeye Wagon Company , was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The Buckeye Wagon Company was founded on September 9, 1904 in Dayton , Ohio . She made horse-drawn carts. Charles Anderson was President and WL Wirsching Secretary. In 1911 they changed the company name to Buckeye Wagon & Motor Car Company and began producing automobiles. The brand name was Buckeye . In the same year the production of motor vehicles ended. It is not known when the company was dissolved.

There were no affiliations with the People's Automobile Company and the Logan Construction Company , which used the same brand name.

vehicles

The only car model was a high wheeler . With its large wheels, it was suitable for the bad roads of the time. The body was open.

According to an advertisement by the company, there was also an open utility vehicle in the range. It had a four-cylinder engine with 25 hp . The chassis had a wheelbase of 254 cm . The payload was given as around 1360 kg.

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. 157 (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. 208. (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. 157 (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. 208. (English)
  3. ^ Ohio Corporates (accessed October 14, 2017)
  4. ↑ Advertisement by the company for a commercial vehicle (accessed on October 14, 2017)