Gatts

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Gatts
legal form
founding 1900s
resolution 20th century
Seat Bethel , Ohio , USA
management Alfred Parmer Gatts
Branch Automobiles

Gatts was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Alfred Parmer Gatts was born in 1883. His family worked in agriculture . He was interested in technology and ran a mechanical workshop on his family's farm in Bethel , Ohio . There he manufactured five motor vehicles in 1905 . He sold three of them and kept two for himself. The brand name was Gatts . Gatts was still busy with automobiles in the 1950s. It is unclear whether he was still running his workshop at that time.

Gatts died in 1963.

vehicles

The first vehicle was a high wheeler . An air-cooled single-cylinder engine was mounted in the rear and drove the rear axle. Leonard Moon from Mount Orab the buyer for 100 was the US dollar .

Gatts sold the second vehicle to Mose Brooks of Greenbush for $ 350.

The third vehicle was bought by William Burkel from Amelia for $ 150. One illustration shows an open runabout with space for two people. This vehicle has been preserved.

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. 632 (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. 609 (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. 632 (English).
  2. ↑ 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. 609 (English).