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The Eisenhuth Horseless Vehicle Co.
The company on North Main Street produced a wagon that was the hit of the St. Louis Expo in 1903
Did you know Middletown had its own car manufacturer? For two years, from 1902 to 1906, the Eisenhuth Horseless Vehicle Co. produced 384 cars.
OK, it wasn’t exactly Detroit.
Long before Henry Ford made the affordable Model A and Model T, Eisenhuth made its first cars in New York before coming to Middletown in 1902. The Eisenhuth was produced on North Main Street in the factory building where the Keating bicycle (and the first motor-driven bicycles) had been made in the previous years.
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The company merged with Graham-Fox Motor Co. in 1903, and the wagon they produced was all the rage at the St. Louis Expo of that year.
After Eisenhuth Co. went bankrupt in 1907, The Noiseless Typewriter moved into their space at the northernmost end of North Main Street in 1909.
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The Eisenhuth Compound touring car was a large automobile, seating seven people, and it sold for about $7,000. Yet it only had three cylinders. Can you imagine working your way up a hill with three cylinders?
In 1990, the only know remaining Eisenhuth was in the collection of a Middlefield business, the Magee Co., and it made an appearance at the Middlesex County Historical Society’s October Car Show in 1996.
