Columbia Taxicab Company

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Columbia Taxicab Company
legal form Company
founding 1910
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Seat St. Louis , Missouri , USA
Branch taxi

Columbia Taxicab Company was an American taxi company and manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded on February 23, 1910. The seat was in St. Louis , Missouri . It used 100 taxis. In 1915 the company started producing automobiles. The brand name was LWC . The main aim was to replace the taxis that had previously been bought in with their own production. In addition, the vehicles were offered on the open market. Vehicle production ended in 1917. After 1918 the track of the company is lost.

vehicles

The cars had a four-cylinder engine with an output of 27 hp . The bodies offered space for seven people.

The original price was 3500 US dollars .

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. 911 (English).
  • George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 2: G-O . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 935 (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. 911 (English).
  2. ↑ George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 2: G-O . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 935 (English).
  3. ↑ bizstanding about the Columbia Taxicab Company (accessed August 11, 2018)