Piedmont Buggy Company

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Piedmont Buggy Company
legal form Company
founding ?
resolution 1919
Seat Monroe , North Carolina , USA
management WC Heath
Branch vehicles

Piedmont Buggy Company was an American manufacturer of vehicles .

Company history

The Monroe , North Carolina company originally made carriages . In 1908 WC Heath was president, OW Kochtitzky secretary and TJ Paine general manager. Automobile production began in mid-1908 . The brand name was Piedmont . In the same year, the production of motor vehicles ended after only a few copies had been produced.

In 1919 the company was dissolved.

There was no association with the Piedmont Motor Car Company , which used the same brand name.

Motor vehicles

Only one model was on offer. It was called a motor buggy. The vehicles were powered by an air-cooled engine with 10 hp . The solid rubber tires were striking . The curb weight was given as around 363 kg.

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. 1177 (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. 1177 (English).
  2. ↑ Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry . McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864-0972-3 , pp. 227 (English).
  3. ↑ WVNC Rails on Monroe (accessed November 24, 2018)