Fred Kohlmeyer & Sons

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Fred Kohlmeyer & Sons
legal form
founding 1916
resolution 1929
Seat Loganville , Wisconsin , USA
management Fred Kohlmeyer
Branch Motor vehicles

Fred Kohlmeyer & Sons was an American manufacturer of motor vehicles .

Company history

Fred Kohlmeyer founded the company in Loganville , Wisconsin in 1916 . He manufactured some passenger cars until 1920 . In addition, trucks were built from 1920 at the latest . The brand name was Klondike . In 1929 the company was dissolved.

One source says there were six or eight cars, while another source says eight. In addition, around 25 trucks have been delivered.

vehicles

The cars had a six-cylinder engine from the Wisconsin Motor Manufacturing Company . It made 65 hp . Most of the bodies were touring cars with seven seats. A four-door sedan was also built . All vehicles were black.

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. 822 (English).
  • George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 2: G-O . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 830 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c 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. 822 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 2: G-O . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 830 (English).