About the marque
- Founded
- 1916 – 1925
- Country
- United States
John H. Bush began soliciting advance-payment automobile orders from Chicago in 1915 and marketed Bush cars from 1916. He owned no car factory: each paid order went to a willing manufacturer—among them Crow-Elkhart, Huffman, Norwalk, Piedmont, Pullman and Sphinx—which selected a suitable car, attached Bush nameplates and shipped it directly. Seven four- and six-cylinder series are documented through 1925, generally as five-seat tourers but with closed and pickup bodies also reported. The low-overhead arrangement survived nearly a decade, then collapsed as partner manufacturers disappeared and Bush could not secure replacements.
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