Category:Rauch and Lang coachwork

Rauch & Lang started carriage making in the 1850, moved to coachwork for automobiles, and was a leading manufacturer of electric automobiles when merged with the Baker Motor Vehicle Company, another electric car manufacturer, into Baker, Rauch and Lang in 1915. In 1924, the Leon Rubay Coachwork Co. was acquired, with a large stock of finished bodies.

The company kept its automobile coachwork department into the 1930s. Beside bodies for their own Rauch and Lang Electric and the affiliated Owen-Magnetic, high-quality coachwork was offered to outside customers, too. After the production of electric automobiles had ended the Rauch & Lang premises at the West 83rd Street were used for Raulang coachwork.

Baker Raulang had a contract for Ruxton roadster bodies, and similar arrangements with Ford and Packard for wooden station wagon bodies. Other customers for small series of bodies were Biddle-Crane, Cadillac, Duesenberg, Franklin, Gardner, Hupmobile, Jordan, Lex­ington, Moon, Peerless, Reo, Stanley, Wills Ste. Claire and Stearns-Knight, which also took over Owen-Magnetic from Baker R & L.