Rodefeld Manufacturing Company

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Rodefeld Manufacturing Company
legal form Company
founding 1900s
resolution 1920s
Reason for dissolution reorganization
Seat Richmond , Virginia , USA
management AH Rodefeld
Branch Motor vehicles

Rodefeld Manufacturing Company was an American manufacturer of motor vehicles .

Company history

AH Rodefeld was a blacksmith in Richmond , Virginia . At the beginning of the 20th century he ran an automobile workshop there. In 1909, with the help of his sons Gus and Bill, he began producing automobiles according to customer orders. The brand name was Rodefeld . Vehicle production ended in 1917. A total of around 25 motor vehicles were built , around half of which were cars and trucks . Then accessories were made.

In the mid-1920s it became the Rodefeld Company Inc. , which also manufactured accessories.

Products

All vehicles had a four-cylinder engine with air cooling . The engine power was transmitted to the rear axle via a chain. The trucks were specified with one ton. In at least one vehicle, the engine was installed across the direction of travel.

A commercial vehicle offered space for twelve people. The company prevailed over International Harvester in a bid by the Wayne County Highway Department . They had a price of $ 1,225, but the competitor was only $ 1,091.50.

After 1917 came water pumps for the Ford Model T .

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 Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1348 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e 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 Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1348 (English).
  3. ↑ Rodefeld Company gets Auto Contract In: Palladium-Item from April 26, 1915. (English, accessed January 26, 2019)