Solved: PN #904 -- Butcher & Gage, 1903

[Paul Jaray]

Is it featured in any book or in the Standard Catalog?

[pnegyesi]

It is mentioned in the Standard Catalog

[Paul Jaray]

Was it later or previously known like something else, like Shelby/Darling, Reinerston/Rex Buckboard and similar?

[pnegyesi]

no

[Paul Jaray]

I hope it's from Ohio...

[pnegyesi]

no

[Paul Jaray]

Cleaver?

[pnegyesi]

no

[Paul Jaray]

From Michigan?

[pnegyesi]

yes

[Paul Jaray]

M.B. Martin's?

[pnegyesi]

no

[Paul Jaray]

Charles H. Wisner?

[pnegyesi]

no

[Paul Jaray]

A company that built 2 cars, from Michigan, active for less than one year in 1903.
This one is a gasoline car.
Is the other a gasoline car as well?
Just a clarification: active for more than 1 year as a 1903-1903 company or as a late 1902 early 1903 (or late 1903 early 1904)?

[pnegyesi]

oops, the material just disappeared from the web. But this was a company set up in 1903. It made two cars, then realised it's not working, so they stopped. Apparently the company survived afterwards. Probably both cars were petrol powered

[Paul Jaray]

I'm not looking for it on the web but on my index...I already browsed all the Standard Catalog and now I know it's not pictured there...I hope the info online matches with the ones in that book.
If I sort my info according to what I know (2 models, 1903 only, Michigan, gasoline) I got nothing...
Not a Jackson, right?

[pnegyesi]

no, there's no picture in the Standard Catalog - in fact, they say that it is not known whether the two cars were really built at all. But here we have proof. No, it's not a Jackson, but you're onto something

[Paul Jaray]

Butcher & Gage

[pnegyesi]

I gave you a lot of clues ! Congrats

[Paul Jaray]

You did, but I found it only because I put a special tag in my index when the production of the maker is in doubt.
Without THAT clue I don't think I could have made it...I filed 6713 makers from those catalogs!