DeWitt Motor Company
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The DeWitt Motor Company produced automobile
s in a factory in North Manchester, Indiana
from about 1908 through 1910.
The vehicles came in two models, a 2-seater runabout and a 2-seater light truck. Both were High wheeler
s which much resembled standard buggies of the era, and were powered by a simple 2-cylinder opposed air-cooled engine.
The company was started and named after Virgil DeWitt, a Swedish
immigrant to the United States
.
Automobile
An automobile, autocar, motor car or car is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transporting passengers, which also carries its own engine or motor...
s in a factory in North Manchester, Indiana
North Manchester, Indiana
North Manchester is a town in Chester Township, Wabash County, Indiana, United States. Peter Ogan, acting as the town’s founder filed for recording the 'Original Plat of Manchester' on February 13, 1846...
from about 1908 through 1910.
High Wheeler
The high wheeler was an early car body style virtually unique to the United States.It is typified by large-diameter slender wheels, frequently with solid tires, to provide ample ground clearance on the primitive roads in much of the country at the turn of the 20th century...
s which much resembled standard buggies of the era, and were powered by a simple 2-cylinder opposed air-cooled engine.
The company was started and named after Virgil DeWitt, a Swedish
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
immigrant to the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
.