Kansas and Oklahoma-built cars and trucks

[Guest Dean Lehrke]

I am researching all automotive vehicles built in KS and OK. Does anyone have info on the following: Cloughley (Cherryvale, & Parsons KS)Jones (Wichita KS), Smith (Topeka KS), Stafford (Topeka,& KS City), Tulsa 4 (Tulsa), OK truck (Okay OK), Nolan truck (Muskogee OK), and Pioneer (El Reno OK). Who now owns the 1911 Stafford that Gilbert Stafford used to own in the 1960's? How many Jones and Smith cars are left? Are any Jones trucks still in existence? Has anyone ever heard about what happened to the 100 "Wing" cars exported by the Geronimo Motor Company of Enid OK in about 1919?

Thanks for your interest and help.

Dean Lehrke Liberty KS

[Peter J.Heizmann]

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[JohnMyer]

For information about the Jones automobile manufactured in Wichita, KS, I recommend that you contact Bob Jones, 155 Sunset Drive, Mount Juliet, TN 37122. Bob has spent several years finding and restoring the few remaining Jones vehicles that are left and I believe that he will have one of his vehicles at the Hershey Fall Meet on October 9, 2004. There is also one Jones vehicle on exhibit at a Museum in Wichita, KS.

As far as Jones manufactured trucks, Bob Jones is currently restoring a truck. In my conversations with Bob, I believe it is the only known jones truck that is still in existence.

John Myer