United Factories Company

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United Factories Company
legal form Company
founding 1906
resolution 1913 or later
Seat Cleveland , Ohio , USA
Branch Automobiles

United Factories Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was a merger of several companies, which is also known as a mail order company. Sherwood Anderson became president in 1906. The seat was in Cleveland , Ohio . A February 1906 newspaper report names Cleveland Top Company , The Royal Carriage and Harness Company , Invincible Steel Wheel Company , Cleveland Paint and Varnish Company , Cleveland Steel Range Company , Ohio Sewing Machine Company , Consumers' Tool Company, and Hearwell Telephone Company . It made roofs for carriages . A few automobiles were also built in 1909. The brand name was Unito . After 1913 the track of the company is lost.

Motor vehicles

The only model was a high wheeler . It had a two - cylinder boxer engine that was mounted under the seat. It drove the rear axle via a chain.

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. 1489 (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. 1643 (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. 1489 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c 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. 1643 (English).
  3. ↑ Newspaper report from February 2, 1906 (English, accessed April 6, 2019)