Cherry Planing Mill

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Cherry Planing Mill
legal form
founding 1893
resolution 1916
Seat Decatur , Indiana , USA
management Peter Kirsch
Branch Automobiles

Kirsch Planing Mill was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Peter Kirsch came from Heidelberg . He founded the woodworking company in 1893. The seat was in Decatur , Indiana . In 1905 he manufactured his first vehicle, in 1908 the second. Then he made automobiles to customer orders. The brand name was Kirsch . Ten of them were planned. The last known advertisement dates from 1916.

Then the track of the company is lost.

vehicles

According to a newspaper report in the Decatur Democrat on June 11, 1908, the vehicles were state-of-the-art. The quality is described as high and the price as reasonable. One vehicle had an open body with space for two people. Kirsch had also developed a special brake .

A vehicle from 1913 still exists. A prisoner truck dated 1911 was on display in the National Automotive and Truck Museum , Auburn.

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. 811 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 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. 811 (English).
  2. ↑ Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry . McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864-0972-3 , pp. 165 (English).
  3. ↑ Trombinoscar from January 3, 2008 (French, accessed July 21, 2018)