Otto Armleder Co

Cincinnati, Ohio,Commercial vehicle manufacturer USA 1909-1936

Otto Armleder Co, in Cincinnati, Ohio USA was a early commercial vehicle manufacturer from 1909 to 1936.

History

The Otto Armleder Co, Cincinnati, Ohio, Otto Armleder was born in Cincinnati immigrants from Germany.The wagon business was incorporated in 1894 as the O. Armleder Company, he then turned from horse-drawn wagons to self-propelled trucks began in 1909,  building motor trucks also from 1912 and by 1919 this was their only but exclusive product as  Armleder was the first to build a low-suspension trucks also left-hand drive trucks early models being offered In capacities of up to 1361kg, but by 1917 a 31/2-tonner was also listed.

Most were assembled designs with Buda, Continental or Hercules petrol engines, Timken worm-and-bevel axels and Brown-Lipe transmissions. Six- cylinder engines were introduced in 1927. In 1928 the Armleder Truck co, as it was then known, was acquired by the LeBlond-Schacht Truck Co, also of Cincinnati, and gradually the Armleder was merged with Schacht production, Schacht While others continued as being sold as Armleder.