Laid the ground work for what would be forever known as the Jeep. This competition with Ford and Willy-Overland, American Bantam's design That small cars would sell enough in the United States to gain acceptable market share.Īmerican Bantam's opportunity for growth cameĪ new 1/4-ton four wheel drive vehicle for the U.S. The company and the concept of selling a small car in the United States Not get any better after the reorganization of the company inġ936, and the last American Bantams were built in 1940. Sales of only 8,5 fell considerably short of the 60,000Įxpected to be sold by the company's 4,000 dealers.
The company introduced a line of small British-designed Austins in 1930. It was reorganized as the American Bantam Car Company after filing for bankruptcy.
The American Bantam Car Company was originallyįormed in 1929 as American Austin Car Company. Boes Company Westfield Manufacturing Company York-Hoover Body Company LeTourneau Shakespeare Company Simplex Manufacturing Company St. Hall-Scott Harley-Davidson Harris-Seybold-Potter Herreshoff Manufacturing Company Higgins Industries Highway Trailer Hill Diesel Company Huffman Manufacturing Indian Motorcycle Ingersoll Steel and Disk John Deere Kimberly-Clark Kohler Company Landers, Frary & Clark Lima Locomotive Works Lundberg Screw Products Massey-Harris Motor Products Corporation Motor Wheel Corporation Novo Engine Company Otis Elevator Owens Yacht Pressed Steel Car Company R.G. Firestone Tire and RubberĬompany Fruehauf Trailer Company Fuller Manufacturing Galvin Manufacturing Gemmer Manufacturing Company Gibson Guitar Gibson Refrigerator Company Goodyear Goodrich Baldwin Locomotive Works Boyertown Auto Body Works Briggs & Stratton Caterpillar Centrifugal Fusing Chris-Craft Clark Equipment Company Cleveland Tractor Company Continental Motors Cushman Motor Works Crocker-Wheeler Dail Steel Products Detrola Federal Telephone and Radio Corp. Other World War Two Manufacturers: Abrams InstrumentĬorporation Air King Products Allis-Chalmers American Car and Foundry American Locomotive Annapolis Yacht Yard B.F. International Harvester John Bean Mack Truck Marmon-Herrington Company Oshkosh Motor Truck Corporation Pacific Car andįoundry Reo Motor Car Company Seagrave Fire Apparatus Sterling Motor Truck Company Ward LaFrance Truck Corporation White Motor Company Adams Company Magnavox Muncie Gear Works Pierce Governor Company Ross Gear and Tool Company Sherrill Research Corporation Tokheim Oil Tank and Pump Company Warner Gear Wayne Pump Company Wayne WorksĬommercial Truck and Fire Apparatus Manufacturers:Īmerican LaFrance Autocar Biederman MotorsĬorporation Brockway Motor Company Detroit General Diamond T Duplex Truck Company Federal Motor Truck Rochester Products United Motors Service Vauxhall MotorsĬompany Delta Electric Company Durham Manufacturing Company Farnsworth Television and Radio Corporation Howe Fire Apparatus J.D. Saginaw Malleable Iron Saginaw Steering Gear Motors Corporation Hudson Motor Car Company Nash-Kelvinator Packard Motor Car Industry-Built Anti-Aircraft Guns in WWII VT Proximity Manufacturers of WWII World War One Era Motor Vehicles Revisions LinksĪmerican Bantam Car Company Briggs Manufacturing Company Checker CarĬompany Chrysler Corporation Crosley Corporation Ford Motor Car Company General Motors WWII Tanks built by the American Auto Industry Surviving LCVP Landing Craft WWII Landing Craft Hull Numbers Airborne Extra-Light Jeep Photos The American Auto Industry vs. Auto Industry Army-Navy "E"Ĭomplete listing of All Army-Navy "E" Award Winners Sherman Tanks of the American Autoĭestroyers of the American Auto Industry M26 Pershing Tanks of the American Auto Industry M36 Tank Destroyers of the American Auto
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