[1] Ferdinand Kahler was the owner of the New Albany Woodworking and Furniture Company which had produced bodies for the Jonz automobile, and when the Jonz New Albany, Indiana factory closed, Kahler was stuck with a stockpile of bodies.
He secured 44-50-hp four-cylinder engines from Continental, which he mounted in a 120-inch wheelbase chassis, and used his Jonz contracted bodies.
Kahler sold out to the Crown Motor Car Company of Louisville, Kentucky which moved into the factory in 1914 and reorganized as Hercules.
They produced a five-seat touring car, powered by a 2.3-liter, four-cylinder engine that was water-cooled and priced at $685 to $835.
Attempts to reorganize the company were only partly successful and very few cars were built before it ceased operations in 1918.