Chicago Motor Buggy Company

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Chicago Motor Buggy Company
legal form Company
founding 1908
resolution 1908
Seat Chicago , Illinois , USA
Branch Automobiles

Chicago Motor Buggy Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The Chicago , Illinois company manufactured several automobiles in 1908. The brand name was Chicago Motor Buggy . Sales remained low.

There was no connection with the Black Manufacturing Company , which gave one of their vehicles the model name Chicago Motor Buggy .

vehicles

The only model was a high wheeler . With the big wheels it was well suited for the bad roads of the time. An air-cooled two-cylinder engine with 15 hp powered the rear axle. The solid rubber tires were striking . The original price ranged between $ 550 and $ 750 . This made the vehicles much more expensive than the comparable Black models, which cost between $ 375 and $ 475.

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. 304 (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. 282. (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. 304 (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. 282. (English)