FR Wood & Son

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Frederick R. Wood
Frederick R. Wood & Son
F. R. Wood & Son Inc.
legal form Inc.
founding 1848
resolution 1939
Seat Brooklyn , New York , USA
Branch Vehicles , bodies

FR Wood & Son , previously Frederick R. Wood and Frederick R. Wood & Son , was an American manufacturer of vehicles and bodies .

Company history

Frederick R. Wood founded the Frederick R. Wood company in 1848 . The seat was in New York City . He made carriages . The company's names were later changed to Frederick R. Wood & Son and FR Wood & Son . Motor vehicles were built from 1899 . The brand name was Wood Electric . In 1902 the production of complete vehicles ended. Instead, bodies were made for automobiles . In the 1930s the company moved to Brooklyn . It was dissolved in 1939.

Motor vehicles

The self-made motor vehicles were almost exclusively electric cars . Most were ambulances . The hospitals named St. Vincent's Hospital , Roosevelt Hospital and Presbyterian Hospital are named as customers . There were also vans and light trucks . Passenger cars remained the exception. A surviving delivery truck from 1900 is on display in The Henry Ford Museum.

In addition, an omnibus from 1900 has come down to us. It had a steam engine with two cylinders . The vehicle with the Charabanc body had space for 20 people. It was driven to the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo .

Body shop

Car bodies for passenger cars were made until 1926. These include bodies on chassis from Daimler Motor Company , Duesenberg , Panhard & Levassor , Rolls-Royce Motor Cars , Rolls-Royce of America , Simplex and ER Thomas Motor Car Company . There is also evidence of a pierce arrow .

In addition, numerous superstructures for commercial vehicles were manufactured.

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. 1565 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Mark Theobald: Coachbuilt (English, accessed on May 4, 2019)
  2. ↑ a b 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. 1565 (English).
  3. ↑ Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry . McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864-0972-3 , pp. 308 (English).
  4. ↑ The Henry Ford (accessed May 4, 2019)