Ohio Falls Motor Car Company

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Ohio Falls Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1913
resolution 1914
Reason for dissolution Bankruptcy and takeover
Seat New Albany , Indiana , USA
management Ferdinand Kahler
Branch Automobiles

Ohio Falls Motor Car Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Ferdinand Kahler was the owner of the New Albany woodworking and furniture Company . He had made many bodies for the American Automobile Manufacturing Company . When this company went bankrupt in 1913 , Kahler had the problem that he had a large amount of finished car bodies in stock, but no buyer for them. He decided to manufacture automobiles himself. To do this, he founded the Ohio Falls Motor Car Company in New Albany , Indiana, and took over the remains of the insolvent company. He started producing automobiles in 1913. The brand name was Pilgrim . Business was bad. In 1914, three bankruptcies led to the cessation of production. The Crown Motor Car Company took over the company. A total of around twelve vehicles were built.

Other manufacturers of passenger cars of the brand Pilgrim were Pilgrim Motor Vehicle Company and Pilgrim Motor Car Company from the USA and Pilgrim's Way Motor and Pilgrim Cars from the United Kingdom .

vehicles

The vehicles had a four-cylinder engine from the Continental Motors Company . He was specified with 44/50 hp . The chassis had a 305 cm wheelbase . The bodies in stock were mounted on it. The original price was 1,800 US dollars . One illustration shows an open touring car .

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. 1191 (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. 1232 (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. 1191 (English).
  2. ↑ 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. 1232 (English).