Western Automobile Company (Colorado)

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Western Automobile Company
legal form Company
founding 1907
resolution 1907
Seat Denver , Colorado , USA
management OM Davis
Branch Automobiles

Western Automobile Company was a American manufacturer of automobiles from Colorado . Another source uses the name Western Motor Car Manufacturing Company .

Company history

The company only existed in Denver in 1907 . OM Davis was President and JO Breckenridge Manager. That year they made automobiles. The brand name was Western . In total, only a few vehicles were built.

There were no connections with the Western Automobile Company from Illinois or the Western Automobile Company from Washington . Other manufacturers of passenger cars with this brand name were Western Auto Parts Company and Western Carriage Works .

vehicles

One model had a two-cylinder engine with 16 hp . It was bodied as a runabout . The original price was 850 US dollars .

There was also the 40/50 HP . It had a six-cylinder engine that was specified with 40/50 hp. The car cost $ 1,850 as a runabout and $ 2,000 as an open touring car .

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. 1532 (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. 1532 (English).
  2. Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry . McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864-0972-3 , pp. 303 (English).