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#46
09-11-2001, 07:05 PM
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What was the first US automobile company to put on their vehicles:
Electric starter, electric headlights? clue: Initials were GMC |
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#47
09-12-2001, 04:14 PM
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#48
09-13-2001, 12:21 AM
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Here's a question back at you, the original "General Motors Truck" had its "GMC" logo donated from another vehicle. What did the donor "GMC" truck's initals stand for? |
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#49
09-13-2001, 10:24 AM
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Nope,
The Geronimo Motor Company. A little known motor car company that burned down and never reopened. I haven't found more than a mention of a sentence or two in any book. They developed the electric starter and lights about 4 years before Cadillac. Cadillac was second.... |
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#50
09-14-2001, 11:25 AM
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I plan on looking this up when I get home, but the only online reference I can find to the Geronimo Motor Company is a quote from a personal journal:
"The Geronimo Motor Company was started in January of 1917. They were shipping the parts in and assembling them, but they built the bodies right here in the factory in Enid [Oklahoma]. I drove one of them for eight years. For those days, they were good." http://www.harvestcomm.net/org/garfi.../pioneers1.htm If this informationi is correct, "Geronimo" was founded three years after the starter was introduced on Cadillacs and with the thought that "[t]hey were shippin the parts in and assembling them" makes me think that they wouldn't have "developed" many new parts for cars, especially not something as advanced as an automotive electrical system. I never take internet information as "gospel," so I will look this up when I get home. |
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#51
09-14-2001, 08:11 PM
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Damn!
If I could only find the tiny bit of reference.... Well, anyway I thought that it burned down in 1917. But there is so little info... Let's both keep trying. Someone at a car show that I will see tomorrow told me about it because he heard it on "Paul Harvey" radio and I have been trying to dig up more info. The internet is not the best place to find everything as I am finding out. I haven't even found anything about dates yet. Just a sentence or two mentioning the company. Here in Iowa there is someone who knows just about everything about the automotive world (he has a small museum) so I'm going to try to contact him, Mr. VanHorn is his name. |
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#52
09-15-2001, 01:12 AM
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According to the "Standard Catalog of American Cars: 1805-1942", the company started production in 1917 and closed up shop in 1920. "The Beaulieu Encyclopaedia of the Automobile" backs up this assertion. Both books account that the factory burned down in August of 1920 after production of 143 vehicles. Also, the Beaulieu book calls it a typical assembled car, which backs up my theory that they wouldn't have invented too much.
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#53
09-15-2001, 10:21 AM
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Heh...looks like Hudson once again prevails as the reigning champ of auto trivia
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#54
09-15-2001, 01:56 PM
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My just-acquired-an-hour-ago "The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Automobiles" says this about Geronimo:
GERONIMO - USA 1917-1920 Named for the famous American Indian chief, the Geronimo was one of the few makes to hail from Oklahoma. With a factory at Enid, the Geronimo began life as a four cylinder automobile, but a year after its entry into the automobile spectrum adopted a Lycoming six and used it until the end of production. Geronimo never built any closed models; several hundred (perhaps even 1,000) cars were built before the company went to the happy hunting grounds.
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#55
09-15-2001, 02:26 PM
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New Question
OK, what name (make, not model) has been used for 6 different manufacturers?
1. 1901 - England 2. 1913 - England 3. 1915 - USA 4. 1923 - USA 5. 1979 - England 6. 1988 - USA
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________________________________________ Mark Brown 1991 Volkswagen Jetta (1.8L I4/5-speed/FWD)
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#57
09-15-2001, 07:57 PM
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pluto? ... uranus?!?!
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#59
09-15-2001, 10:05 PM
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It's the manufacturer name, not model name.
Those dates are the years that the different companies opened shop, and the country is of course the country of origin.
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#60
09-16-2001, 04:40 AM
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Sorry,
But I said before, not much is mentioned about this little known motorcar company. Don't just get out a book and believe what it says. I know many things about ship's that "Jane's Book of Fighting Ships" is wrong about. Here's what I've found just on general dates alone and where: http://www.custom-cruisers.com/Carmake/Carmakes.htm#G GERONIMO (1917-1921) Geronimo Motor Co., Enid, Ok. http://junior.apk.net/~ecar/carcomp.htm 344 GEROHIMO 1917 1919 Geronimo M. Co. Enid Okla. 1917-1919B. These are the only Net leads or references so far. I'm checking with Museums right now. How about this: What is the World's Fastest Truck? And I had this car show up at a car show that is supposed to be the only example left. Anyone care to guess? It was built in 1904.... |
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