Afraid I'll have to skip Tuck and move to 15102 instead.
Tuck Petroleum Motor Company from Brooklyn, New York built a 12hp Runabout powered by Kerosene, in 1904.
15102:TRABOLD
This one?
Johnstown’s Trabold Truck Co.
During the winter of 1897-98, Adam G. Trabold, a machinist at the Cambria Steel Co., built his first “Trabold” vehicle in the shed behind his Hill Street home in Conemaugh. It was a one-cylinder, gasoline engine “horseless carriage”. Though there had been earlier steam powered automobiles, Trabold’s car was the first combustible engine vehicle owned and operated in the county.
The Trabold Truck Manufacturing Company existed in Johnstown from 1910 to 1960. The first factory was on Railroad Street.
In the beginning, the company produced some automobiles and a fire engine for the Conemaugh Fire Co., but eventually Trabolt concentrated only on trucks and later only on truck bodies.
Locally, Trabold trucks and truck bodies were sold to Harris-Boyer Bakeries, the Johnstown Grocery Co. and South Fork Brewery.
Another factory was built in Ferndale in 1923, but was dismantled and moved to Sheridan Street during the 1930’s.
At its peak in the 1920’s, the company employed 15 workers and produced about 125 trucks per year. After 1932, Trabold only manufactured truck bodies, many of which were sold to White, Mack, Federal and International.
During WWII, the company was too small to compete for federal contracts and remained open as a repair shop. Adam Trabold died in 1947 and truck body manufacturing resumed under his three sons; Arnold, Karl and Victor until 1960.
Source: article by Donald J. Summar
Antique Automobile Magazine—1973.
