BUCKEYE

Buckeye Manufacturing Co. (1913)

Anderson, Indiana

This is a Buckeye emblem (possibly 1913)      mjs
Size: 76mm wide 55mm high    MM: Unknown

John W. Lambert built a surrey topped gasoline-powered three wheeler runabout in 1890 which he called the Buckeye. The Buckeye gasoline buggy was offered for sale in 1891 but there were no buyers and production did not proceed further. Lambert organized the Buckeye Manufacturing Company in the early 1890's to produce gasoline engines. In 1895, Lambert announced that a gasoline car was to be built to be called the Buckeye but again production did not happen.

In 1902, John Lambert started to produce the Union car in Union City, Indiana and renamed the car as the Lambert when he moved production to Anderson, Indiana (see Lambert). Lambert planned to revive the Buckeye name for his smaller Lambert models in 1913 and announced this to the press but no record has been found to show that he did so. 

Emblem

The brown and white enamel Buckeye emblem shown above is very rare and may have been made for prototypes of the Buckeye planned for production in 1913 but I cannot confirm this.