Eichstaedt (automobile manufacturer)

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Eichstaedt
legal form
founding 1898
resolution 1902
Seat Michigan City , Indiana , USA
management Roman Eichstaedt
Branch Automobiles

Eichstaedt was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Roman Eichstaedt came from Germany. After working in New Orleans , St. Louis and Chicago , he found work as a machinist for the Michigan Central Railway Company of Michigan City in Indiana in 1898 . A little later he went into business for himself. In 1898 he manufactured the first automobile. The brand name was Eichstaedt . This was followed mainly by bicycles , but also a few other cars for local customers. In 1902 Eichstaedt was active as a dealer for bicycles, automobiles, sewing machines , pistols and ammunition, as well as a repair shop. Then the track of the company is lost.

Motor vehicles

The first car had a single cylinder engine . The open body offered space for two people. The maximum speed was given as 32 km / h.

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. 519 (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 (English).
  2. ↑ Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry . McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864-0972-3 , pp. 101 (English).