Fostoria Motor Car Company

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Fostoria Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1906
resolution 1907
Seat Fostoria , Ohio , USA
management William H. Radford
Branch Automobiles

Fostoria Motor Car Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

William H. Radford was a designer at the Detroit-Oxford Manufacturing Company in Oxford . After its dissolution in 1905, he took the only prototype with him and moved to Ohio . In 1906 he founded the new company in Fostoria . He started with the production of automobiles. The brand name was Fostoria . Production ended in 1907.

There was no association with the Fostoria Light Car Company , which used the same brand name a few years later.

Radford then worked for Hudson Motor Car Co. and later for Warren Motor Car Company , Pilgrim Motor Car Company and Balboa Motor Car Company .

vehicles

Only one model was offered. It had a two-cylinder engine with 16 hp . The chassis had a 229 cm wheelbase . The vehicles were bodied as open touring cars . They offered space for five people.

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. 602 (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. 585 (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. 602 (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. 585 (English).