engineer at Frick and a brother of Sam Rowe." It was decided that the company should be organized under the liberal corporation laws of New Jersey. Three lawyers in Camden, New Jersey, agreed to handle the legal formalities of organization. By January 1908 all was in readiness for the birth of the Rowe

. One such company was the Kreider Machine Company of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, which made not one, but two, attempts to become an automobile producer. The Kreider Machine Company was organized on January 26, 1903, to "make, buy, and sell machinery and tools and other articles of wood or metal or both

The Carroll Motor Car Company of Strasburg by Donald J. Summar Prior to the First World War, small companies were organized to manufacture automobiles in cities and towns throughout the Uni- ted States. In Lancaster County, attempts to enter the infant auto- mobile industry were made by companies