:Buckeye Manufacturing Company
{{short description|Defunct American motor vehicle manufacturer}}
{{Infobox company
|name = Buckeye Manufacturing Company
|logo =
|logo_size = 200px
|type = Automobile Manufacturing
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|foundation = 1884
|founder = John William Lambert
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|location_city = Anderson, Indiana
|location_country = United States
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|area_served = United States
|industry = Automotive
|products = Vehicles
Automotive parts
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|image = Buckeye Manufacturing 1915.jpg
|image_size = 300 px
|image_caption = circa 1915
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|hq_location = 1801-1809 Columbus Ave
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|defunct = 1917
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The Buckeye Manufacturing Company was a company noted for manufacturing gasoline engines and farm implements.{{Cite book |last=Naldrett |first=Alan |title=Lost Car Companies of Detroit |publisher=The History Press |year=2016 |isbn=978-1-46711-873-6 |location=Charleston, SC |pages=73 |language=en}} It manufactured the engines for its sister company, the Union Automobile Company.
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.{{Cite book |last=Humphrey |first=David |title=Anderson |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |year=2014 |isbn=978-1-4671-1174-4 |location=Charleston, SC |pages=119 |language=en}}{{cite news |author=Howard P. Freeman |title= Anderson One Time Leader in Auto Production |url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93754404/ |work= Anderson Daily Bulletin| page= 42 |location=Anderson, Indiana|date= May 2, 1966 |via= }}
History
A single Buckeye gasoline buggy automobile was built by the company in 1890, and offered for sale in 1891, though none were produced.{{cite web|url= http://www.and.lib.in.us/indianaroom/history/autohistory.shtml|title= Anderson's Automobile Age|access-date= 2008-12-19|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100325114403/http://www.and.lib.in.us/indianaroom/history/autohistory.shtml|archive-date= 2010-03-25}}{{cite news |author= |title= Auto's 75th Anniversary of special interest Here |url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/68643254/ |work= Anderson Daily Bulletin | page= 4 |location=Anderson, Indiana|date= January 12, 1971 |via=Newspapers.com {{open access}} }}{{cite web |last= |first=|title=Buckeye Manufacturing Company |publisher=Memim Encyclopedia |date= 2022 |url= https://memim.com/buckeye-manufacturing-company.html |accessdate= January 29, 2022}}{{sfn|Forkner|1914|page=148}}US Department of Interior, National Park Service, Historic American Engineering Record; HAER IN35, Buckeye Manufacturing Company, historians Donald Sackheim and Robert Rosenberg{{cite news |author= |title= Several auto factories in the city before the Remy brothers |url= https://www.heraldbulletin.com/community/several-auto-factories-in-the-city-before-the-remy-brothers/article_0669a55d-964f-57c3-a2da-1f54c855bc88.html |work= The Herald Bulletin |page= 4 |location= Anderson, Indiana |date= September 13, 2013 |access-date= June 16, 2024 |archive-date= January 29, 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220129154410/https://www.heraldbulletin.com/community/several-auto-factories-in-the-city-before-the-remy-brothers/article_0669a55d-964f-57c3-a2da-1f54c855bc88.html |url-status= live }}{{cite news |author= |title= Anderson's Industries are fairly humming |url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93822912/|work= The Indianapolis Journal| page= 2 |location=Indianapolis, Indiana|date= December 21, 1903 |via= }} {{cite news |author= |title= Man about Town |url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93820161/|work= Anderson Daily Bulletin| page= 4 |location=Anderson, Indiana|date= January 20, 1959 |via= }}{{cite news |author= |title=Adopt Gasoline Street Car |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93808184/ |work=The Times |page=3 |location=Munster, Indiana |date=May 5, 1910 |via=Newspapers.com {{open access}} |access-date=June 16, 2024 |archive-date=June 16, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240616090053/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times/93808184/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Lambert House |publisher=Anderson Public Library |date=December 18, 2020 |url=https://publichistory.iupui.edu/items/show/512 |accessdate=January 30, 2022 |archive-date=June 16, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240616090112/https://discoverindianahistory.org/items/show/512 |url-status=live }}
See also
References
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Sources
- {{cite book |last= Forkner|first=John L.|year= 1914|title= History of Madison County, IN |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=fDIFGlhoEeEC&dq=%22In+1893+it+was+incorporated+under+the+firm+name+of+the+Buckeye+Manufacturing+Company+and+the+Lambert+Gas+and+Gasoline+Engine+Company+and+recently%22&pg=PA385 |publisher= The Lewis Publishing Company}}
Further reading
- Dolnar, Hugh; [https://books.google.com/books?id=-jBLAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22The+Lambert,+1906+Line+of+Automobiles%22&pg=PA225 The Lambert, 1906 Line of Automobiles]; Cycle and Automobile Trade Journal, volume 10, issue 7 (pages=225–229), 1906
- {{Cite book |last=Kimes |first=Beverly Rae |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34905743 |title=Standard catalog of American cars, 1805-1942 |date=1996 |publisher=Krause Publications |isbn=0-87341-428-4 |edition=3rd |location=Iola, WI |oclc=34905743 |ref=none}}
- {{Cite book |last=Naldrett |first=Alan |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/936410685 |title=Lost car companies of Detroit |date=2016 |publisher=History Press |isbn=978-1-62585-649-4 |edition=E-book |location=Charleston, S.C. |oclc=936410685|ref=none}}
- Nawale,Suraj Dattatray (2014), Multispeed Right Angle Friction Gear, International Journal of Engineering and Technical Research (IJETR) (pages=184–191), volume 2, issue 9, ISSN 2321-0869
- Netterville, J. J., Centennial History of Madison County, IN, Anderson, Indiana, Historian's Association, 1925
- The Horseless Age: The Automobile Trade Magazine, The Horseless Age Company, 1902
- Bailey, L. Scott, Historic Discovery: 1891 Lambert, Claim for America's First Car, "Antique Automobile" magazine, V4, #5, Oct–Nov 1960
- {{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44401900 |title=The new illustrated encyclopedia of automobiles |date=2000 |publisher=Chartwell Books |others=David Burgess Wise |isbn=0-7858-1106-0 |edition=Revised |location=Edison, N.J. |oclc=44401900 |ref=none}}
- {{Cite book |last=Dittlinger |first=Esther W. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22865633 |title=Anderson : a pictorial history |date=1990 |publisher=G. Bradley Pub |others=David Dittlinger, Peggy Dittlinger |isbn=0-943963-16-8 |location=St. Louis |oclc=22865633 |ref=none}}
- {{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/45369199 |title=The Beaulieu encyclopedia of the automobile |date=2000 |publisher=Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers |others=G. N. Georgano |isbn=1-57958-293-1 |location=Chicago |oclc=45369199 |ref=none}}
- Huffman, Wallace Spencer, Indiana's Place in Automobile History in Indiana History Bulletin, vol 44, no. 2, Feb. 1967; Indianapolis, Indiana Historical Bureau
- {{Cite book |last=Huhti |first=Thomas |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49666056 |title=The great Indiana touring book : 20 spectacular auto tours |date=2002 |publisher=Trails Books |isbn=1-931599-09-2 |location=Black Earth, Wis. |oclc=49666056 |ref=none}}
- {{Cite book |last=James |first=Wanda |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/56924840 |title=Driving from Japan : Japanese cars in America |date=2005 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=0-7864-1734-X |ref=none |location=Jefferson, N.C. |oclc=56924840}}
- {{Cite book |last=Kimes |first=Beverly Rae |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34905743 |title=Standard catalog of American cars, 1805-1942 |date=1996 |publisher=Krause Publications |isbn=0-87341-428-4 |ref=none |edition=3rd |location=Iola, WI |oclc=34905743}}
- {{cite book |last=Lucendo |first=Jorge |isbn=9781393838036 |date=31 May 2019 |title=Cars of Legend |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C8mlDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Lambert+Automobile%22+1905-1916&pg=PA1864 |publisher=Jorge Lucendo Publications |pages=1863–1864 |language=en |ref=none}}
- {{Cite book |last=Madden |first=W. C. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50851708 |title=Haynes-Apperson and America's first practical automobile : a history |date=2003 |publisher=McFarland & Co |isbn=0-7864-1397-2 |ref=none |location=Jefferson, N.C. |oclc=50851708}}
- {{Cite book |last=Scharchburg |first=Richard P. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28256346 |title=Carriages without horses : J. Frank Duryea and the birth of the American automobile industry |date=1993 |publisher=Society of Automotive Engineers |isbn=1-56091-380-0 |location=Warrendale, PA |oclc=28256346 |ref=none}}
External links
- {{HAER |survey=IN-35 |id=in0123 |title=Buckeye Manufacturing Co, Columbia Ave, Anderson, IN |photos=15 |dwgs=1 |data=6 |cap=1}}
- [https://www.loc.gov/resource/hhh.in0123.photos/?sp=8 Buckeye Manufacturing Co 1915]
Category:Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of the United States
Category:Motor vehicle manufacturers based in Indiana
Category:Defunct manufacturing companies based in Indiana
Category:Manufacturing companies established in 1884
Category:Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1902
Category:1884 establishments in Ohio