Holt Manufacturing Company

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Stockton Wheel Service
Holt Manufacturing Company

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legal form Company
founding 1883
resolution 1925
Reason for dissolution fusion
Seat Stockton , California , USA
Branch Motor vehicles

Tractor from 1910
Tractor from 1917/18
Chain tractor

Holt Manufacturing Company , previously Stockton Wheel Service , was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Benjamin Holt founded Stockton Wheel Service in Stockton , California in 1883 . He made agricultural implements. In 1892 the name was changed to the Holt Manufacturing Company .

Later came the construction of tractors .

In 1899 a single passenger car was created , which was called Holt .

1925 did the merger with the CL Best Gas Traction Company to Caterpillar .

Car

Pliny E. Holt, Benjamin Holt's nephew , had acquired knowledge of engines at the university. He was the driving force behind the project. The only prototype had a gasoline engine . The open vehicle was bodied as a runabout with two seats.

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. 713 (English).

Web links

Commons : Holt Manufacturing Company  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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. 713 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c d Caterpillar (English, accessed April 28, 2018)
  3. ↑ Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry . McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864-0972-3 , pp. 145 (English).
  4. ↑ Information from Caterpillar ( Memento of August 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (English)