Sign in

Private company

Versare Company

Bus and trolley bus maker

Versare Car Company was a bus and trolley bus maker founded in 1925 and originally based in Watervliet, New York. Among their early work were experimental buses that utilized gasoline (Buda or Waukesha) and electric engines that could be run alone or together, a technique that could be seen as a very early ancestor to dual-mode vehicles of the modern day.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1925Founded1
  • Industryindustrial manufacturing1

See how the biggest companies compare on our leaderboards

Versare Eight Wheeler (1925)
Photo: AERA v.14 1925-1926 Aug-Jan, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

Versare Car Company was a bus and trolley bus maker founded in 1925 and originally based in Watervliet, New York. Among their early work were experimental buses that utilized gasoline (Buda or Waukesha) and electric engines that could be run alone or together, a technique that could be seen as a very early ancestor to dual-mode vehicles of the modern day.2

Timeline

  1. 1925Founded Founded1

Sources

The numbers on this page point here. Each one links to the record it came from.

  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3