Woodburn Auto Company

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Woodburn Auto Company
legal form Company
founding 1905
resolution 1912
Seat Woodburn , Indiana , USA
management
  • William Keller
  • Herman Messman
Branch Motor vehicles

Woodburn Auto Company was an American manufacturer of motor vehicles .

Company history

William Keller and Herman Messman ran the Woodburn , Indiana company . Claude Spreuer was a manager. Local businessmen held shares. In 1905 the production of automobiles began . The brand name was Woodburn . Production ended in 1912. A total of around 12 vehicles were built.

vehicles

Most of the passenger cars were high wheelers . They had a two-cylinder , air-cooled engine that was obviously mounted under the seat. Was steered with a steering wheel . The last car of 1912 had a four-cylinder engine with water cooling as a front engine .

There are also trucks and tractors .

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. 1565 (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. 1763 (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. 1565 (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. 1763 (English).