Buckeye Manufacturing Company

The Buckeye Manufacturing Company was a company noted for manufacturing gasoline engines and farm implements.[1] It manufactured the engines for its sister company, the Union Automobile Company.

Buckeye Manufacturing Company
TypeAutomobile Manufacturing
IndustryAutomotive
Founded1884
FounderJohn William Lambert
Defunct1917
Headquarters1801-1809 Columbus Ave, ,
Area served
United States
ProductsVehicles
Automotive parts

In time the Lambert founded automobile related subsidiary companies such as the Union Automobile Company, the Lambert Automobile Company, and the Lambert Gas and Gasoline Engine Company. Buckeye Manufacturing Company manufactured the components of the cars assembled by these subsidiaries. The company later produced automobiles and it continued until 1917.[2][3]

History

A single Buckeye gasoline buggy automobile was built by the company in 1890, and offered for sale in 1891, though none were produced.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10] [11][12][13]

Buckeye Manufacturing Company in Anderson, Indiana (1910)

See also

References

  1. Naldrett, Alan (2016). Lost Car Companies of Detroit. Charleston, SC: The History Press. p. 73. ISBN 978-1-46711-873-6.
  2. Humphrey, David (2014). Anderson. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing. p. 119. ISBN 978-1-4671-1174-4.
  3. Howard P. Freeman (May 2, 1966). "Anderson One Time Leader in Auto Production". Anderson Daily Bulletin. Anderson, Indiana. p. 42.
  4. "Anderson's Automobile Age". Archived from the original on 2010-03-25. Retrieved 2008-12-19.
  5. "Auto's 75th Anniversary of special interest Here". Anderson Daily Bulletin. Anderson, Indiana. January 12, 1971. p. 4 via Newspapers.com open access.
  6. "Buckeye Manufacturing Company". Memim Encyclopedia. 2022. Retrieved January 29, 2022.
  7. Forkner 1914, p. 148.
  8. US Department of Interior, National Park Service, Historic American Engineering Record; HAER IN35, Buckeye Manufacturing Company, historians Donald Sackheim and Robert Rosenberg
  9. "Several auto factories in the city before the Remy brothers". The Herald Bulletin. Anderson, Indiana. September 13, 2013. p. 4.
  10. "Anderson's Industries are fairly humming". The Indianapolis Journal. Indianapolis, Indiana. December 21, 1903. p. 2.
  11. "Man about Town". Anderson Daily Bulletin. Anderson, Indiana. January 20, 1959. p. 4.
  12. "Adopt Gasoline Street Car". The Times. Munster, Indiana. May 5, 1910. p. 3 via Newspapers.com open access.
  13. "Lambert House". Anderson Public Library. December 18, 2020. Retrieved January 30, 2022.

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