Wenger Simplified Motor Car Manufacturing Company

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LS Wenger & Company
Wenger Simplified Motor Car Manufacturing Company
legal form Company
founding 1907
resolution 1908
Seat Lancaster , Pennsylvania , USA
management LS Wenger
Branch Automobiles

Wenger Simplified Motor Car Manufacturing Company , previously LS Wenger & Company , was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was based in Lancaster , Pennsylvania . LS Wenger was actually an electrical engineer. The blacksmith John H. Kauffman and the coachbuilder John JA Hoover worked at the same address, although it remains unclear whether the two people were involved. Wenger manufactured a number of automobiles between 1907 and 1908. The brand name was Wenger . In 1908 the name was changed.

vehicles

In the first year, vehicles were only created according to customer orders. That was to change in 1908.

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. 1529 (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. 1529 (English).