Lehigh Company
| Lehigh Company | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1925 |
| resolution | 1927 |
| Seat | Allentown , Lehigh County , Pennsylvania ( USA ) |
| Branch | Commercial vehicle manufacturer |
The Lehigh Company was an American commercial vehicle manufacturer .
The company was founded in Allentown in 1925 for the production of commercial vehicles from purchased components (so-called " Assembled Trucks ). The brand name was Lehigh , named after the Lehigh River (a tributary of the Delaware River ) and the county , whose seat is Allentown.
During its short existence, the company produced a truck with a 2 tn payload, which was offered in three variants. Two of them got Hercules engines , the third a Buda type LH6.
In 1927 the company was merged with the Bethlehem Motor Truck Company , also based in Allentown . After this was already taken over in January of this year by the WG Hahn & Brothers Company , manufacturer of the Hahn truck in Hamburg (Pennsylvania) , it seems obvious that this merger took place afterwards.
literature
- GN Georgano (Ed.), G. Marshall Naul: Complete Encyclopedia of Commercial Vehicles. MBI Motor Books International, Osceola WI 1979, ISBN 0-87341-024-6 . (English)
- Albert Mroz: Illustrated Encyclopedia of American Trucks and Commercial Vehicles. Krause Publications, Iola WI 1996, ISBN 0-87341-368-7 . (English)
- Walter MP McCall: Illustrated Encyclopedia of American Fire Engine Manufacturers. Iconografix, Hudson WI 2009, ISBN 978-1-58388-252-8 . (English)
- Fred Crismon: Fire Engines. (= Crestline series). MBI Motor Books International, Osceola WI 1997, ISBN 0-7603-0381-9 . (English)