Fujioka Motor Car Company

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Fujioka Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1922
resolution 1923
Seat Los Angeles , California , USA
management Fred J. Fujioka
Branch Automobiles

Fujioka Motor Car Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Earl A. Spencer and George B. Morrow had automotive experience at Pierce-Arrow . In 1922 they founded the automobile manufacturing company in Los Angeles , California . President and namesake was Fred J. Fujioka, who owned an auto repair shop and was the manager of the Japanese Automobile Club of Southern California. They decided to make a small vehicle for export to Japan . Spencer was the designer. The brand name was Fujioka . Production ended in 1923. In total, only a few vehicles were built.

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. 620 (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. 598 (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. 620 (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. 598 (English).