Greenfield Bus Body Company

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CR Patterson, Son & Company
C.R. Patterson & Sons Company
Greenfield Bus Body Company
legal form Company
founding 1893
resolution 1938
Reason for dissolution reorganization
Seat Greenfield , Ohio , USA
management Fred Patterson Jr.
Branch vehicles

Greenfield Bus Body Company , formerly CR Patterson, Son & Company and CR Patterson & Sons Company , was an American manufacturer of vehicles .

Company history

Charles Richard Patterson was born a slave in Virginia in 1833 and moved to Greenfield , Ohio as a free man in 1865 . At first he worked as a blacksmith . In 1893 he founded CR Patterson, Son & Company to manufacture coaches . In 1897 it became the CR Patterson & Sons Company . His son Fred experimented with automobiles from 1902 . Automobile production did not begin until 1916. The brand name was Patterson-Greenfield . As far as is known, it was the only American automaker to be made by an African American . Motor vehicle production ended in 1919. A total of between 30 and 150 passenger cars were built . According to a source, a vehicle still exists.

Then the company manufactured bodies for commercial vehicles. In 1921 the name was changed to Greenfield Bus Body Company . Fred Patterson Jr. ran the company. It was dissolved in 1938.

In 1938 there was a reorganization as the Gallia Body Company in Gallipolis , Ohio, which only existed until 1939.

Motor vehicles

Patterson-Greenfield, dated 1915

Only one car model was on offer. It had a four-cylinder engine from the Continental Motors Company . It made 30 hp . The choice was between touring cars and roadsters . The original price was around 850 US dollars .

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. 1157-1158 (English).
  • George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1198 (English).

Web links

Commons : Greenfield Bus Body Company  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f C.R. Patterson; Greenfield Bus Body Co. (accessed December 1, 2018)
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g 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. 1157-1158 (English).
  3. ↑ a b George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1198 (English).
  4. ^ CR Patterson & Sons Company (1893-1939) (accessed December 1, 2018)