Buffalo Gasoline Motor Company

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The Buffalo Gasoline Motor Company was an American manufacturer of internal combustion engines and automobiles in Buffalo, New York .

description

The company was founded in 1899 with a share capital of US $ 25,000. Partners were Louis Langen , L. Belle Conrad and Louis A. Fisher . Until 1901 the company limited itself to the manufacture of engines.

The entry into automobile production was rather unconventional: they built in-house 7 bhp four-cylinder engines into specially developed chassis and delivered the unit as a kind of "semi-finished product". The customer was responsible for procuring the body and components such as gasoline and water tanks . This sales concept met with little success. Buffalo tried a full car the following year. The brand name was Buffalo .

Only two pieces were completed before the company was sued by the Electric Vehicle Company (EVC) in early 1903 . As the owner of the Selden patent , she watched over who was allowed to produce cars and that license fees were paid.

Buffalo subsequently applied for and received such a license, but decided to give up car manufacturing entirely. The gasoline engine business subsequently went very well and the company moved into larger premises in the same year.

In 1906 it was taken over by the lawyer and inventor George Baldwin Selden , who had originally submitted the patent and legally represented EVC. He wanted to build automobiles and commercial vehicles under his own name and reorganized the company as the Selden Motor Vehicle Company in Rochester (New York) .

Automobiles were built here from 1907 to 1912; after that, commercial vehicles were manufactured until 1930.

literature

  • George Nick Georgano (Editor): Complete Encyclopedia of Motorcars, 1885 to the Present ; Dutton Press, New York, 2nd edition (hardcover) 1973, ISBN 0-525-08351-0 (English)
  • Beverly Rae Kimes (Editor), Henry Austin Clark Jr.: Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805–1942. 3. Edition. Krause Publications, Iola WI (1996), ISBN 978-0-87341-428-9 ISBN 0-87341-428-4 . (English)
  • Robert D. Dluhy: American Automobiles of the Brass Era: Essential Specifications of 4,000+ Gasoline Powered Passenger Cars, 1906-1915, with a Statistical and Historical Overview. Mcfarland & Co Inc (2013); ISBN 0-78647-136-0 ; ISBN 978-078647-136-2 ; (Soft cover, English)
  • Beverly Rae Kimes: Pioneers, Engineers, and Scoundrels: The Dawn of the Automobile in America ; Editor SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) Permissions, Warrendale PA (2005), ISBN 0-7680-1431-X (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Kimes (1996), p. 159
  2. ↑ Kimes (1996), p. 1336