Buckeye Manufacturing Company

Buckeye Manufacturing Company

circa 1915
Company type	Automobile Manufacturing
Industry	Automotive
Founded	1884
Founder	John William Lambert
Defunct	1917
Headquarters	1801-1809 Columbus Ave, Anderson, Indiana , United States
Area served	United States
Products	Vehicles Automotive parts

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.

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

• Union automobile
• Lambert automobile

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 .
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. Archived from the original on January 29, 2022. Retrieved June 16, 2024.
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. Archived from the original on June 16, 2024. Retrieved June 16, 2024 – via Newspapers.com .
13. "Lambert House". Anderson Public Library. December 18, 2020. Archived from the original on June 16, 2024. Retrieved January 30, 2022.

Sources

• Forkner, John L. (1914). History of Madison County, IN. The Lewis Publishing Company.

Further reading

• Dolnar, Hugh; The Lambert, 1906 Line of Automobiles; Cycle and Automobile Trade Journal, volume 10, issue 7 (pages=225–229), 1906
• Kimes, Beverly Rae (1996). Standard catalog of American cars, 1805-1942 (3rd ed.). Iola, WI: Krause Publications. ISBN 0-87341-428-4. OCLC 34905743.
• Naldrett, Alan (2016). Lost car companies of Detroit (E-book ed.). Charleston, S.C.: History Press. ISBN 978-1-62585-649-4. OCLC 936410685.
• 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
• The new illustrated encyclopedia of automobiles. David Burgess Wise (Revised ed.). Edison, N.J.: Chartwell Books. 2000. ISBN 0-7858-1106-0. OCLC 44401900.
• Dittlinger, Esther W. (1990). Anderson : a pictorial history. David Dittlinger, Peggy Dittlinger. St. Louis: G. Bradley Pub. ISBN 0-943963-16-8. OCLC 22865633.
• The Beaulieu encyclopedia of the automobile. G. N. Georgano. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. 2000. ISBN 1-57958-293-1. OCLC 45369199.
• Huffman, Wallace Spencer, Indiana's Place in Automobile History in Indiana History Bulletin, vol 44, no. 2, Feb. 1967; Indianapolis, Indiana Historical Bureau
• Huhti, Thomas (2002). The great Indiana touring book : 20 spectacular auto tours. Black Earth, Wis.: Trails Books. ISBN 1-931599-09-2. OCLC 49666056.
• James, Wanda (2005). Driving from Japan : Japanese cars in America. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-1734-X. OCLC 56924840.
• Kimes, Beverly Rae (1996). Standard catalog of American cars, 1805-1942 (3rd ed.). Iola, WI: Krause Publications. ISBN 0-87341-428-4. OCLC 34905743.
• Lucendo, Jorge (31 May 2019). Cars of Legend. Jorge Lucendo Publications. pp. 1863–1864. ISBN 9781393838036.
• Madden, W. C. (2003). Haynes-Apperson and America's first practical automobile : a history. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co. ISBN 0-7864-1397-2. OCLC 50851708.
• Scharchburg, Richard P. (1993). Carriages without horses : J. Frank Duryea and the birth of the American automobile industry. Warrendale, PA: Society of Automotive Engineers. ISBN 1-56091-380-0. OCLC 28256346.

External links

• Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. IN-35, "Buckeye Manufacturing Co, Columbia Ave, Anderson, IN", 15 photos, 1 measured drawing, 6 data pages, 1 photo caption page
• Buckeye Manufacturing Co 1915