Postal Automobile & Engineering Company

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Postal Automobile & Engineering Company
legal form Company
founding 1906
resolution 1908
Reason for dissolution takeover
Seat Bedford , Indiana , USA
management Fred Postal
Branch Automobiles

Postal Automobile & Engineering Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles . There is also the name Postal Auto & Engine Company .

Company history

Fred Postal founded the company in Bedford , Indiana in 1906 . He took over the factory of the disbanded Anderson Machine Company and began producing automobiles. The brand name was Postal . Production ended in 1908.

The Buggy Car Company took over the company.

vehicles

The model 2 was a highwheeler on offer . With the large wheels, the vehicle was well suited for the bad roads of the time. It had a chassis with a 178 cm wheelbase .

The two-cylinder engine had a 107.95 mm bore , 101.6 mm stroke and 1860 cm³ displacement . It was air-cooled and had 12.5 hp . It was mounted under the seat and drove the rear axle. The setup was a runabout with two seats. Was steered with a steering lever. The original price was 475 US dollars .

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. 1239 (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. 1260 (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. 1239 (English).
  2. ↑ Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry . McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864-0972-3 , pp. 231 (English).
  3. ↑ 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. 1260 (English).