Fageol Truck & Coach Company

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Fageol Motors Company
Fageol Truck & Coach Company
legal form Company
founding 1916
resolution 1939
Seat Oakland , California , USA
Branch Motor vehicles

Fageol Motors Company stock dated November 10, 1921
Truck from 1932
bus
Tractor from 1920

Fageol Truck & Coach Company , previously Fageol Motors Company , was an American manufacturer of motor vehicles .

Company history

The Fageol Motors Company was founded in November 1916th Brothers Frank R. and William B. Fageol, Louis H. Bill, who formerly ran the California Motor Company , and Webb Jay, who previously worked for the Chautauqua Motor Company , were involved. The seat was in Oakland , California . The production of trucks , tractors and passenger cars was planned . In fact, it was mainly trucks, until the 1920s tractors, later also buses and three cars. The brand name was Fageol .

In 1932 the name was changed to Fageol Truck & Coach Company . Production ended in 1939 for economic reasons. The main creditor was the engine supplier Waukesha Engines . Sterling Division and Peterbilt acquired building licenses. Twin Coach was still using the brand name in the 1950s.

vehicles

In 1917 the Six was on offer. It had a six-cylinder engine with a 127 mm bore , 177.8 mm stroke and 13,513 cm³ displacement . The engine output was given as 125 hp . The chassis had a wheelbase of either 343 cm or 368 cm , according to another source 356 cm. The touring car and speedster bodies are named . A top speed of 128 km / h was guaranteed. The chassis alone was priced at $ 9,500 or $ 12,000 with the body. Planning amounted to 25 vehicles for 1917. Orders for 20 vehicles were quickly placed. However, a shortage of materials due to the First World War caused considerable problems in production. So only two vehicles were created. The buyers were Antonio S. de Bustamante Junior and William Andrews Clark Junior.

In 1921 the company manufactured a third car for Louis Bill, the company's head. This was a four seat speedster. The eight-cylinder engine came from the Rutenber Motor Company . It drove the rear axle via a seven-speed gearbox that was manufactured in-house.

The trucks and buses were highly regarded in the United States. They were powered by four and six-cylinder engines. In 1932 diesel engines from Cummins Engine and Waukesha were added.

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. 555 (English).
  • George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 1: A-F . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 520 (English).

Web links

Commons : Fageol Truck & Coach Company  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d 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. 555 (English).
  2. ↑ George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 1: A-F . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 520 (English).
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Halwart Schrader, Jan P. Norbye: The truck lexicon. All brands 1900 to today. Schrader Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-613-01837-3 , pp. 54-55.
  4. ↑ a b The Classic Car Database for the 1918 model (English, accessed on February 10, 2018)