O-We-Go

Short description: Defunct American motor vehicle manufacturer

O-We-Go Car Company

1914 O-We-Go

Type| Automobile manufacturer
Fate| Bankruptcy
Founded| February, 1914; 110 years ago (1914)
Defunct| January, 1915; 109 years ago (1915)
Headquarters| Owego, New York,

United States

Key people

| Charles B. Hatfield, Jr.
Products| Cyclecars

Production output

| 300 (approx) (1914)

The only known surviving O-We-Go, a 1914 model, which is currently on display at the Northeast Classic Car Museum.

The O-We-Go was an American Cyclecar manufactured in 1914 in Owego, New York.[1]

## History

Designed by Charles B. Hatfield, Jr. of the Hatfield Auto Truck Company in Elmira, New York, the O-We-Go prototype cyclecar was tested for 3 months before production in Owego, New York began in 1914.[1]

The O-We-Go had a 12-hp twin-cylinder Ives motorcycle engine with a friction transmission on a 104-inch wheelbase. The tandem-seat automobile sold for $385, equivalent to $9,827 in 2019. The "cyclecar craze" faded as quickly as it started, and the company entered into voluntary bankruptcy in January 1915.[1]

In 1916, C.B. Hatfield, Jr. reconfigured the O-We-Go and sold it in kit form which could be purchased complete, or piece-by-piece under the name Tribune. The only known surviving O-We-Go is currently on display at the Northeast Classic Car Museum.

## See also

* O-We-Go By Jim Donnelly from the March 2010 issue of Hemmings Classic Car

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kimes, Beverly Rae; Clark Jr., Henry Austin (1996). Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805-1942 (3rd ed.). Krause Publications. ISBN 978-0-87341-428-9. https://archive.org/details/standardcatalogo0000kime.

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