Acme Motor Car Company

Not to be confused with; Acme Motor Car Company of New York

The Acme Motor Car company aka Acme was incorporated in 1903 in Reading, Pennsylvania. It was the successor to Reber, a child company of Reber Manufacturing after the acquisition of an Acme Machine Company's bicycle factory. The company seems to have intitially produced Reber cars to finish off the assembly line of the defunct predecessor before manufacturing it's own unique designs with a total of 27 models (including the three original ones which may have been Reber designs). The company would be succeeded by SGV of which it had produced one model for prior.

History
In June 1903 James C Reber acquired the old Acme Machine Company's bicycle factory on the corner of Eighth and Elm Streets, Reading for US$47,000 at a receivership auction of the American Bicycle Company. Reber owned Reber Manufacturing, an automobile manufacturer, and stated that he was going to use the factory to manufacture automobiles. With the purchase of this site Reber also announced that Reber Manufacturing was changing its name to the Acme Motor Car Company. The company's directors were James C Reber, George D Horst, Jacob Noble, and John D Horst. The company had $200,000 capital. In 1904 it entered the Chicago Automobile Shows of which it'd continue to take part in till 1907. In 1905 it became a founding members of the American Motor Car Manufacturers Association.In November of that year the company was taken over by Frank A Devlin of Devlin and Co, Chicago. Devlin owned Carson, Pirie, Scott, and Co one of America's largest jobbing houses. The purchase price was rumored to have been $250,000. The new owners intended to specialize in tourist cars (a touring car, limousine, and landaulettte) and delivery wagons. -you can help the wiki by expanding this article-