Pugh & Bofinger

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Pugh & Bofinger
legal form
founding 1901 or earlier
resolution 1901 or later
Seat Davenport , Iowa , USA
management
  • William J. Pugh
  • Mr. Bofinger
Branch Automobiles

Pugh & Bofinger was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

This mechanical workshop was in Davenport , Iowa . The people named are William J. Pugh and Mr. Bofinger. In early 1901, Pugh stated that he had made an automobile. For this invention, it should 500,000 US dollars have been offered, which he refused. His plan was to sell his patents only to Europe and to want to produce them himself for the US market. In the same year, Pugh bought production machines in Chicago . The Quad-City Times reported on it on December 3, 1901. In the same month it became known that only small quantities would be produced in the first year until the money was sufficient for a larger factory. The brand name was Pugh .

After 1901, the company loses its track. A total of three vehicles were built.

vehicles

The cars had a gasoline engine .

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. 1249 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d 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. 1249 (English).
  2. ↑ Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry . McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864-0972-3 , pp. 234 (English).
  3. ^ Quad-City Times, December 3, 1901 (accessed December 29, 2018)