Pietsch Auto & Marine Company

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Pietsch Automobile Company
Pietsch Auto & Marine Company
legal form Company
founding 1906
resolution 1909
Seat Chicago , Illinois , USA
Branch Motor vehicles

Pietsch Auto & Marine Company , previously the Pietsch Automobile Company , was an American manufacturer of motor vehicles .

Company history

Edward A. Becker, Laurence J. Pietsch and Carlos J. Ward founded the Pietsch Automobile Company at the end of 1906 . The seat was in Chicago , Illinois . They may have made delivery vans first . In 1908 the name was changed to Pietsch Auto & Marine Company . Now passenger cars were also made . The brand name was Paco . Production ended in 1909. Laurence Pietsch's plans to start producing larger quantities of delivery vans in Kalamazoo , Michigan , from August 1909 , failed.

vehicles

Highwheelers were on offer . They had a front hood that resembled a hood but did not cover an engine, as well as a steering wheel . This made them look more like ordinary cars than many other highwheelers. A two-cylinder engine was mounted under the seat and drove the rear axle. It had 10 HP in the passenger car and 12 HP in the light delivery vans. The choice was between runabout for 400 US dollars and Surrey for $ 500.

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. 1141-1142 (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. 1176 (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. 1141-1142 (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. 1176 (English).