In recent posts I have described the brief history of the brands owned by EL Cord. The last manufacturer he owned for a while was Auburn. Auburn was founded around 1900 and formed out of the Eckhart Carriage Company by the brothers Frank and Morris Eckhart. They absorbed a couple of smaller local companies (Zimmerman Manufacturing and W. H. Kilbinger) and produced cars … [Read more...]
Cord
The Cord Corporation was instrumental in the development of several American car brands and aviation companies during the 1920s and 1930s. Errett Lobban Cord founded the Cord Corporation in 1929 as an umbrella for the 150 companies that he controlled – mostly in aviation or automobile manufacturing. During the 1920s and 1930s he owned Lycoming and Stinson … [Read more...]