Acme Motor Truck Company

The company, founded in 1915 in Cadillac, Michigan, produced light and medium-sized trucks under the company name Cadillac Auto Truck Co. It was one of the manufacturers that assembled vehicles from components available on the market. These were accordingly referred to as "assembled vehicles" and were common in the commercial vehicle sector. There is no connection to the automobile manufacturer Cadillac, which derived its name directly from Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, Sieur de Cadillac. However, this very manufacturer successfully sued over the similarity of the names. As a result, the new company name was changed to Acme Motor Truck Co in January 1918. ^[1][2] Obviously overlooked in this name change was that Acme was also a problematic name, which had been actively used in many industries, including by other motor vehicle manufacturers. The capital stock has increased to $ 1,000,000 in January 1918. ^[3]

In the first eight months of the year 1929, Acme was able to sell 275 trucks. ^[4] In the last year of production, 1931, new models were still introduced. The 3X as 1.5 tons, the 4X as 2 tons, the 6X as 3 tons, the 8X as 4 tons, and finally the 10X as 5 tons. ^[5]

There is no connection to Acme in Reading, Pennsylvania or to Acme Motor Car Company of New York (incorporated 1905) - J Fe Smet Maguire, R Lewis Julian, and George H Stout (Directors).

The pre-assigned serial numbers only indicate the maximum possible production quantity.

• George Nicholas Georgano: The Complete Encyclopedia of Commercial Vehicles. Motorbooks International, Osceola 1979, ISBN 0-87341-024-6
• Albert Mroz: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of American Trucks and Commercial Vehicles. Krause Publications, Iola 1996, ISBN 0-87341-368-7