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

. Papers Read Before the Lancaster County Historical Society, Vol. VIII, No. 5, March 4, 1904, pages 129-141. 2. Franklin Ellis and Samuel Evans. History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Phil- adelphia, Everts & Peck, 1883, pages 230-231. 3. Geist, page 129. Lancaster County (Pa.) Tax Assessment for

company occupied was one of many demolished in 1929 to make way for the new United States Post Office. �REFERENCES 1 Lancaster County Charter Book 2-295. 2 J- E- Williams' Lancaster Directory, 1892, p. 215. 3 Lancaster County Charter Book 2-295. 4 Lancaster New Era, February 14, 1906. 5 Polk's Lancaster

company in Lancaster County in early 1912. At the annual meeting of stock- holders in Camden, New Jersey, in late February, Knox began his efforts to have the Rowe company move its plant from Rock Run to Lancaster. 55 He had already been successful in arousing the inter- �est of a number of prominent

58-160, and Polk's Lancaster County Directory, 1909. 24Lititz Record, January 9, 1908; February 27, 1908. 25Ibid., March 12, 1908. 26Ibid., April 16, 1908. 27Ibid., July 30, 1908. 28Lititz Express, September 11, 1908. 29Ibid., October 16, 1908. &Colvin, Op. Cit., page 126. 31Lititz Express, January