  Mschilde Member Username: Mschilde Post Number: 1 Registered: 12-2008 |
I am beginning research on the Rickenbacker Motor car company and the Trippensee body company. Any help or hints will be appreciated | ||
Lodgedodger Member Username: Lodgedodger Post Number: 1089 Registered: 05-2008 |
http://www.rickenbackermotors. com/ | ||
Mschilde Member Username: Mschilde Post Number: 2 Registered: 12-2008 |
Thank you for your response. I am the so called historian on the web page. That is about all of the info we have at this time and I have been encouraged to start the process of assembling info for a book on the Rickenbacker car. I am a Rickenbacker car collector So... where do we go from here? | ||
Kathleen Member Username: Kathleen Post Number: 2073 Registered: 10-2003 |
Have you visited or been in touch with the Detroit Public Library's National Automotive History Collection? http://www.detroit.lib.mi.us/N AHC/ | ||
Mschilde Member Username: Mschilde Post Number: 3 Registered: 12-2008 |
Thank you for your response. I am the so called historian on the web page. That is about all of the info we have at this time and I have been encouraged to start the process of assembling info for a book on the Rickenbacker car. I am a Rickenbacker car collector So... where do we go from here? | ||
Hornwrecker Member Username: Hornwrecker Post Number: 1739 Registered: 04-2005 |
Welcome to this forum. First, it would probably be best to post this question in the Old Car Factory thread that's been going on, seemingly forever. https://www.atdetroit.net/forum/mes sages/5/38415.html?1227648328 Rickenbacker was discussed a bit on pages 2 and 20, link also in the Hall of Fame section of this site. I've been trying to get an address for their orginal location where the prototypes were made, that was supposedly housed in the former Disteel Wheel Co factory on Michigan Avenue in 1922. Trippensee was mentioned in that thread, but I don't have it in my db on what pages it was discussed. All I have in the db is the locations of their factories on 12th St, E Milwaukee, and E Grand Blvd. Some other info might be found researching Everitt which bought them out sometime in the 1920s. who was later bought out by Briggs. For indepth research, you're going to have to visit the NAHC at the Skilman branch library on Gratiot and Farmer, and possibly the Main Library, Burton Collection. That's about all the info I have at hand. | ||
Kathleen Member Username: Kathleen Post Number: 2079 Registered: 10-2003 |
Mschilde: Welcome to the Forum. Since you reside out of state, perhaps a visit to Detroit along with other Rickenbacker members would be useful. You all would love the automotive history sites and museums in the area. | ||
Lodgedodger Member Username: Lodgedodger Post Number: 1090 Registered: 05-2008 |
Mschilde, A visit might be something you should do. In spring, Preservation Wayne has an Automotive Heritage walking tour that would take you through the Milwaukee Junction area. It's very informative. Whenever you plan to visit, give me a shout-out. | ||
Oldredfordette Member Username: Oldredfordette Post Number: 5787 Registered: 02-2004 |
My grandfather owned a Rickenbacker, in the 20's. Somewhere my sister the family historian has photos. Beautiful beautiful car that he apparently drove like a wild man. | ||
Bulletmagnet Member Username: Bulletmagnet Post Number: 1804 Registered: 01-2007 |
Any chance of seeing some of those photos here, Oldredfordette? | ||
Oldredfordette Member Username: Oldredfordette Post Number: 5790 Registered: 02-2004 |
I'll write and ask her to scan them. I'd like a copy myself. | ||
Mschilde Member Username: Mschilde Post Number: 4 Registered: 12-2008 |
I have a window regulator in a '25 Rickenbacker coupe that has the name Commonsense Detroit Were they a very small operation or did they have a factory? | ||
Renf Member Username: Renf Post Number: 36 Registered: 11-2003 |
The webpage below shows a fairly recent picture of the large plant build in Detroit for Rickenbacker. http://www.detroit1701.org/Ric kenbacker.html | ||
Mschilde Member Username: Mschilde Post Number: 5 Registered: 12-2008 |
Thank you for the webpage info. I have printed the info and added it to my file. I have been challenged to gather and try to write a history of the Rickenbacker car. At the moment there are many questions. An example being the Common Sense window regulator and who made it. |
