Western Wheel Works

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Western Wheel Works
legal form
founding 1889
resolution 1900
Reason for dissolution insolvency
Seat Chicago , Illinois , USA
management Adolph Schoeninger
Number of employees 1000
Branch vehicles

Western Wheel Works was an American manufacturer of vehicles .

Company history

Adolph Schoeninger founded the company in 1889 as the successor to his Western Toy Company . The seat was in Chicago , Illinois . He made bicycles . At times 1000 employees were employed. In 1891 they made 25,000 bicycles, four years later 57,000 and then in 1896 70,000. In 1900 the company went bankrupt due to falling demand .

Automobile manufacturing

In 1900 the production of automobiles began. The designer was Harry John Lawson. It was financed by the American Bicycle Company . The Crescent Organization was responsible for sales. Both Western Wheel Works and Crescent were now part of the American Bicycle Company. The brand name was Trimoto or Tri-Moto . Production ended in 1901. Since Western Wheel Works was already dissolved in 1901, it can be assumed that the American Bicycle Company had production carried out in another of its plants that year.

The only model was the Trimoto . It was a tricycle with a front single wheel. An air-cooled gasoline engine with 2.25 hp was mounted on the front wheel and powered it. The maximum speed was given as 19 km / h. The original price was 425 US dollars .

literature

  • Hans-Erhard Lessing: Adolph Schoeninger - the Henry Ford of the bicycle industry in: Cycle History - Proceedings of the 18th International Cycling History Conference 18 (2008) pp. 59-64
  • 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. 1479 (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. 1611 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d 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. 1479 (English).
  2. ↑ a b 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. 1611 (English).
  3. ↑ a b Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry . McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864-0972-3 , pp. 287 (English).
  4. ↑ a b c d Chicagology via Western Wheel Works (accessed April 6, 2019)
  5. ↑ a b Fahrradsalon zu Crescent (English, accessed April 6, 2019)