Rock Hill Buggy Company

Rock Hill Buggy Company
legal form	Company
founding	1888
resolution	1916
Seat	Rock Hill , South Carolina , USA
management	John Gary Anderson
Branch	vehicles

Rock Hill Buggy Company was an American manufacturer of vehicles .

Company history

John Gary Anderson operational from 1888 in Rock Hill in South Carolina , a repair shop for bicycles . The production of carriages was added. It is not known exactly when the name was changed to Rock Hill Buggy Company . In 1910 he began producing automobiles in partnership with the Norwalk Motor Car Company . The brand name was Rock Hill . Motor vehicle production ended in the same year. A total of 25 vehicles were built. In 1916 the company was dissolved.

Anderson founded the Anderson Buggy Company in 1916 .

vehicles

The only model largely corresponded to a Norwalk model. A four-cylinder engine with 35 hp propelled the vehicles. The track width was either 142 cm or 152 cm.

Another source gives a four-cylinder engine with 30 horsepower, a four-seat structure and a new price of 1,600 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. 1305 (English).
• George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 1: A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 1348 (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. 1305 (English).
2. ↑ George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 1348. (English)
3. ↑ ^{a b} Ron Chepesiux: nothin 'finer in Carolina. The Anderson Motor Company. In: Automobile Quarterly , Volume 34, Issue 4.