Decker Automobile Company

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Decker Automobile Company
legal form Company
founding 1903
resolution 1903
Seat Owego , New York , USA
management Ward Decker
Branch Automobiles

Decker Automobile Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Ward Decker ran the Automatic Telephone Exchange Company and Decker Automatic Telephone Exchange Company in Owego , New York . In addition, from 1902 he manufactured automobiles that were marketed as deckers . He only founded the company in early 1903. In the summer of the same year there were plans for a factory in Binghamton that were no longer implemented. Production ended in 1903.

A total of at least three vehicles were built, probably a few more.

vehicles

Small and light vehicles were on offer. A single-cylinder engine with an output of 5.5 HP initially drove the rear axle via a cardan shaft . The open runabout offered space for two people. Was steered with a steering wheel.

In 1903 the engine output was increased to 7 hp.

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. 423 (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. 397 (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. 423 (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. 397 (English).