Ohio Electric Car Company

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Type| Company
Industry| Automobile
Founded| 1909
Founder| James Brown Bell, Henry P. Dodge, Rathbun Fuller, Robert E. Lee and Henry E. Marvin
Defunct| 1918
Headquarters|

Toledo, Ohio, United States

Key people

| George W. Shaw

Ohio Electric Car Company was a brass era electric car company founded in 1909 in Toledo, Ohio.

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 Vehicles
* 3 Model overview
* 4 Bibliography

## History

James Brown Bell, Henry P. Dodge, Rathbun Fuller, Robert E. Lee and Henry E. Marvin founded the company in September 1909. The company was based in Toledo, Ohio. In 1910 the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Ohio. Initially part of the Milburn Wagon Company facility was used before moving OECC to its own facility in 1911.

Twelve vehicles were built in 1910, 300 in 1915 and 650 the following year. In 1915 M.V. Barbour became the president, C.M. Foster the vice president and general manager, and Herman H. Brand the secretary and treasurer. In 1917 George W. Shaw became the president. At that time business was already declining, so half of the company activities consisted of building bodies for other car manufacturers.

The production ended in 1918.

There is no connection to the Ohio Motor Car Company, which used the same brand name from 1909 to 1912.

## Vehicles

1913 Ohio Electric advertisement showcasing a woman steering the car with the lever.

Ohio Electric offered only electric cars, emphasising in the ads (often aimed at women) how they were particularly easy to drive. Their cars were steered with a steering lever that could be operated from both the front seat and the back seat. Ohio Electric also emphasised their patents on the double drive and magnetic control, as well as their usage of magnetic brake. The electric motors came from Crocker-Wheeler.

In 1910 there was only one model called the Shaft Drive. This is the only indication of cardan drive in Ohio Electric, otherwise chain drive is not mentioned for any model.

## Model overview

Year | Model | Wheelbase (cm) | Car body style

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1910 | Shaft Drive |  | Coupé
1911 | Model D | 203 | Coupé
1911 | Model F | 203 | Victoria
1911 | Model G | 203 | Large Coupé
1912 | Model D | 203 | Coupé
1912 | Model F | 229 | Victoria
1912 | Model G | 229 | Coupé
1912 | Model K | 229 | Coupé
1912 | Model Q | 229 | Victoria
1912 | Model X | 259 | De Luxe Coupé
1913 | Model F |  | Stanhope
1913 | Model L | 269 | Colonial Brougham
1913 | Model M | 269 | Straight-Line Brougham
1913 | Model O | 269 | Dresden Brougham
1913 | Model Q | 229 | Victoria
1913 | Model Y | 269 | Brougham
1914 | Model 40 | 249 | Dresden Design with 4 seats
1914 | Model 50 | 249 | Coupé
1914 | Model 60 | 249 | Viennese Design with 5 seats
1915 | Model 11 Single-Drive | 250 | Coupé
1915 | Model 21 | 250 | Roadster
1915 | Model 41 | 250 | Brougham
1915 | Model 51 Double-Drive | 250 | Brougham
1915 | Model 61 Double-Drive | 250 | Coupé
1915 | Roadster | 250 | Roadster with 2 seats
1915 | Single-Drive | 250 | Brougham with 4 and 5 seats
1915 | Double-Drive | 250 | Brougham with 5 seats
1916 | Model 12 | 239 | Brougham with 4 seats
1916 | Model 42 Single-Drive | 262 | Brougham
1916 | Model 62 | 262 | Brougham with 5 seats
1916 | Roadster | 262 | Roadster
1916 | Single-Drive | 262 | Coupé
1917 | Model 12 | 262 | Coupé
1917 | Model 43 | 262 | Brougham
1917 | Model 63 | 262 | Brougham
1917 | Coach | 262 | Coach
1917 | Single-Drive | 262 | Roadster
1918 | Brougham | 262 | Brougham
1918 | Coach | 262 | Coach

## Bibliography

* Kimes, Beverly Rae (1996). Standard catalog of American cars, 1805-1942 (3rd ed.). Iola, WI: Krause Publications. pp. 1056–1058. ISBN 0-87341-428-4. OCLC 34905743. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34905743.
* The Beaulieu encyclopedia of the automobile. G. N. Georgano. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. 2000. pp. 1135–1136. ISBN 1-57958-293-1. OCLC 45369199. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/45369199.

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