Riddle Manufacturing Company

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Riddle Coach & Hearse Company
Riddle Manufacturing Company
legal form Company
founding 1891
resolution 1926
Seat Ravenna , Ohio , USA
Branch vehicles

Riddle Manufacturing Company , previously Riddle Coach & Hearse Company , was an American manufacturer of vehicles .

Company history

Henry Warner Ridder founded the Riddle Coach & Hearse Company in Ravenna , Ohio , in 1891 . He made carriages . Specialty was hearse , and later ambulance . In 1916 the production of automobiles began . The brand name was Riddle .

In 1919 the name was changed to Riddle Manufacturing Company . Henry Riddle died on December 16, 1920. The previous Vice President Charles G. Bentley took over the management. Bentley's son died in 1926. The company also shied away from investing in expensive metal processing machines. So the owners decided in 1926 to dissolve the company.

The President of the United States William McKinley and Warren G. Harding were driven in hearses from Riddle.

Car

The vehicles had a six-cylinder engine from the Continental Motors Company . It made 55 hp . Some were bodied as sedans with eight or nine seats. A special feature was the Double Side Door Convertible Seven Passenger Sedan . This sedan did not have a B-pillar on the right-hand side . The front door was hinged at the front, the rear door at the back. This resulted in an extra wide access to the vehicle interior.

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. 1293 (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. 1333 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c 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. 1293 (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. 1333 (English).
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Mark Theobald: Coachbuilt (English, accessed January 19, 2019)