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• Columbia
  ...turn of the Twentieth Century they were producing and selling hundreds of vehicles a year under Pope's Columbia brand name, while most [[gasoline engine]] aut ...ce the weight. Brakes on both rear wheels featured a bell, which rang when the vehicle reached a full stop. Top speed was about 15 miles per hour.
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• Industrias Kaiser Argentina
  ...n Córdoba Province as a joint venture with [[Kaiser Motors]] of the United States. ...oduction equipment which had been transferred. This model was discontinued in 1962.
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• Standard Steam Car
  ...is known to have been built; the company may have produced as many as five vehicles before folding. *David Burgess Wise, ''The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Automobiles''.
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• Knight Engine
  ...by Charles Yale Knight (1868-1940), that used [[sleeve valve]]s instead of the more common [[poppet valve]] construction. ...ous companies and receive a royalty payment on each vehicle produced using the engine.
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• Kissel Motor Car Company
  ...ident Archie Andrews forced the owners to file for receivership protection in November, 1930. ...atty Arbuckle and aviatrix Amelia Earhart. Kissel also produced from 1927, the sporty "White Eagle Speedster."
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• Owen Magnetic
  ...land, Ohio between 1916 and 1919 and finally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania in 1920 and 1921. ...based upon the same electromagnetic principle that turned the propeller of the U.S.S. Battleship New Mexico.
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• Minerva
  ...AME}} Models}}The '''Minerva''' was an important Belgian luxury automobile manufactured from 1902 until 1938. ...r]]. The 8 litre ''Kaiserpreis'' won the Belgian Circuit des Ardennes race in 1907.
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• Apollo (1962 automobile)
  ...ates [[sports car]]/personal [[automobile]] manufactured from 1962 to 1964 in Oakland, California. ...V8 engine|Buick]] engine, ninety units were produced before it was renamed the [[Vetta Ventura]] and made until 1966 by Vanguard Inc of Dallas, Texas.
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• Marquette
  ...hich was to be sold in [[Oldsmobile]] dealerships. The Marquette "arrived" in dealer showrooms on June 1, 1929. ...yling feature was its herring-bone patterned grille. Reviewers at the time the car was released described it either looking like a small Oldsmobile or sma
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• Antique vehicle registration
  ...]], [[Vintage car|vintage]], or historic. Both the specific term used and the definition of a qualifying vehicle vary from country to country, as well as ...a vehicle first registered before 7 January 1973 was actually manufactured in 1972 and is therefore exempt from tax.
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• Mors
  ...lle Mors]], in racing's technical and promotional benefits. By the turn of the century, automobile racing had become largely a contest between Mors and [[ ...rnier]] was able to win the highly significant [[Paris-Berlin race]], with the drive chain breaking immediately afterwards.
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• Detroit Electric
  ...but this was considered adequate for driving within city or town limits at the time. ...lic through its design which included the first use of curved window glass in a production automobile, an expensive and complex feature to produce.
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• White Motor Company
  ...otor Company''' was an American [[automobile]] and [[truck]] manufacturer, in existence from 1902 to 1981. ...n their father's very successful sewing machine manufacturing business and in 1901 they set up operations to build automobiles.
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• Apperson
  ...factured from 1902 to 1926 in Kokomo, Indiana. The company was founded by the brothers [[Edgar Apperson|Edgar]] and [[Elmer Apperson|Elmer]] Apperson sho ...tric lights, a novelty for the time, and used a modern cellular radiator. The 25 hp (18.6 kW) version weighed 1800 lb (816 kg) and so
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• Malcolm Bricklin
  ...the few Americans who has successfully introduced foreign cars in bulk to the American public from firms such as [[Subaru]], [[Fiat]] and [[Zastava]]. ....story?coll=orl-news-headlines-space|title=Orlando man's message: Buy made-in-U.S. products|publisher=[[Orlando Sentinel]]}}</ref>
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• Model year
  ..., to describe approximately when an automobile was produced, and indicates the coinciding base specification of that product. ...d there may be an additional delay to retool and retrain for production of the new model.
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• Allison Transmission
  ...lison unit to private equity firms The Carlyle Group and Onex Corporation, in a deal valued at $5.6 billion. ...ow known as the Allison Engineering Company, Allison produced bearings for the Liberty engine.
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• Biscúter
  ...ronunciation of Biscooter) was a [[microcar]] manufactured in Spain during the mid-20th century. ...domestic substitutes for hard-to-get imported products and technologies. The Biscúter, tiny, simple, and cheap even by microcar standards, was a produc
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• Amphicar
  ...ns Trippel]], creator of the war-time [[Schwimmwagen]] and manufactured by the [[Quandt Group]] at Lübeck and at Berlin-Borsigwalde. Its name is a combin ...ots in the water and 70&nbsp;mph (113&nbsp;km/h) on land. Later version of the engine were 1300cc and 1500cc with up to 75HP. Some Amphicar owners have fi
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• Firestone and Ford tire controversy
  ...e controversy''' was a period of unusually high tire failures on some Ford vehicles. ...tur, Illinois plant. This was one of the leading factors to the closing of the Decatur plant.<ref>Velasquez "Business Ethics" (pg. 296-299)</ref>
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