Geronimo!
Geronimo! That's the name of the once famous automobile built right here in Enid, Oklahoma. Although Geronimo Motors is long gone there is still at least one Geronimo automobile around today. It now resides at George's Antique Auto Museum. Auto museum owner, George McCamey, owns the car.This is a photo of the Geronimo carrying members of the Enid High class of 1957.
The Geronimo Motor Co. was organized at Enid in 1916 by Will C. Allen. Located on a five-acre tract at the intersection of Cleveland and Oklahoma Streets, the Geronimo Company produced more than 1,000 cars, plus a number of tractors and trailers, before the plant was destroyed by fire in 1920.
The Geronimo came in four-cylinder or six-cylinder and the colors blue, black or red. The Four was the biggest seller and sold for $895. The Geronimo Six sold for $1,295.
Geronimo dealerships were established in at least four states as production began to grow in the third and fourth years of operation.
Around this time the plant employed 125 workmen and was producing a Geronimo every 24 hours. The Geronimo was a good, reliable car and might have become a huge seller had it not been for fire.
In August, 1920, shortly after building its one-thousandth automobile, a fire broke out in the motor plant. Before firefighters could get to the fire the plant was totally engulfed. The destruction was total and plant was never rebuilt.


















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