Buffalo Automobile & Auto-Bi Company

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Buffalo Automobile & Auto-Bi Company
legal form Company
founding 1900
resolution 1902
Reason for dissolution Takeover by ER Thomas Motor Car Company
Seat Buffalo , New York , USA
management Erwin Ross Thomas
Branch Automobiles

Buffalo Automobile & Auto-Bi Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Erwin Ross Thomas founded the company in Buffalo , New York , in 1900 . He began with the development of automobiles, which did not lead to series production until 1902. The brand name was Buffalo . The ER Thomas Motor Car Company , also headed by Thomas, took over the company in October 1902.

There were no affiliations with the Buffalo Electric Carriage Company , Buffalo Gasoline Motor Company, and Buffalo Electric Vehicle Company using the same brand name.

vehicles

One model was the junior . It had a single cylinder engine with 3.5 hp . The wheelbase was 173 cm. The two-seat runabout became Model No. 6 called.

There was also the senior . Its single cylinder engine developed 6 hp. The chassis had a wheelbase of 183 cm. The model No. 7 was also a two-seat runabout and the Model No. 16 a four-seater tonneau .

Model overview

year model execution cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1902 Junior Model No. 6th 1 3.5 173 Runabout 2-seater
1902 Senior Model No. 7th 1 6th 183 Runabout 2-seater
1902 Senior Model No. 16 1 6th 183 4-seater tonneau

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. 159 (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. 209. (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. 159 (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. 209. (English)