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Toledo's Early Auto Industry: 1899 - 1905

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Written by Timothy Messer-Kruse, December 1999

The Pope Toledo Motor Car Building, Toledo, Ohio, 1905The Pope Toledo Motor Car Building, Toledo, Ohio, 1905

 

Toledo has had a long and continuous automotive history. For Toledo, the year 2000 will not only mark the great roll-over of the millennial odometer, but will also be the centennial year of automobile production in the city. In the fall of 1900, the American Bicycle Company built a steam truck in a factory on Central Avenue. From that time with only a few interruptions, notably in the panic of 1907 and the Great Depression, automobiles and trucks have been built upon this same site to the present day.

 

 

 

 

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