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Adventures in Western New York History:
Manufacturers of Wheels and Motors:
The Early Automobile


By Roger Squire
Online September 2017

In the first fifty years of the twentieth century these thirty makes of automobiles were manufactured in Buffalo:
Adria
Atterbury Truck
Automatic
Auto Two
Brooks
Buffalo
Buffalo Electric (Babcock)
Centaur
Chief
Clark
Conrad
Duquesne
Genesee
Ideal
Iroquois
Kensington
Lad's Car
Lutz
Morelock
Mutual
Niagara
Parenti (all wood)
Pierce-Arrow
Red Jacket
Seven Little Buffaloes
Spaulding
Starin Son
Stewart
Thomas
Tonawanda
The Atterbury, Buffalo Electric (Babcock), and Stewart achieved national prominence. The Thomas Flyer was the most widely publicized car in the history of the industry. The Pierce-Arrow at its height was acknowledged to be the country's finest automobile.

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