Rex Buckboard

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Rex Buckboard was an American automobile brand.

Brand history

Rex Reinertson had already made a car for his own use in his home town of Milwaukee , Wisconsin , in 1901 . In 1902 he moved to Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania . In 1903 he became superintendent of the Pennsylvania Electrical & Railway Supply Company . In his spare time he designed another automobile . He then made several vehicles in his employer's workshop. The brand name was Rex Buckboard . Sales remained limited to the local area. Production ended in the same year.

vehicles

The only model was a particularly small vehicle in the style of the Orient Buckboard . The vehicles were powered by a single-cylinder engine with 4.5 hp . The curb weight was specified as 272 kg and the top speed was 48 km / h. The original price was 550 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. 1287 (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. 1328 (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. 1287 (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. 1328 (English).