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• Delahaye
  ...belt driven, with single or twin cylinder engines. In 1900, Delahaye left the company for unknown reasons. ...heir designs to manufacturers in the United States and Germany. By the end of World War I, their major income was from their truck business.
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• Owen Magnetic
  ...re of the car was sponsored by R.M. Owen & Company of New York, New York. The car was built in New York City in 1915, Cleveland, Ohio between 1916 and 19 ...based upon the same electromagnetic principle that turned the propeller of the U.S.S. Battleship New Mexico.
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• Crane-Simplex
  ...is a now defunct car Manufacturer in the New York City at the beginning of the 20th century. ...1915. The ''Crane-Simplex Company'' was finally purchased by the '''Mercer Automobile Company'''.
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• Kissel Motor Car Company
  {{List of {{PAGENAME}} Models}}[[image:Kissel.jpg|thumb|200px|1912 KisselKar Model 4- ...le take-over by [[Ruxton| New Era Motors]] President Archie Andrews forced the owners to file for receivership protection in November, 1930.
  2 KB (300 words) - 06:30, 13 June 2007
• Detroit Electric
  ...but this was considered adequate for driving within city or town limits at the time. ...design which included the first use of curved window glass in a production automobile, an expensive and complex feature to produce.
  3 KB (536 words) - 07:07, 19 February 2007
• 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
  3 KB (395 words) - 05:29, 19 February 2007
• Auburn
  ...as modestly successful until materials shortages during World War I forced the plant to close. ... hp (7.5 kW). A 2-speed [[planetary transmission]] was fitted. The angle-steel-framed car weighed 1500 lb (680 kg) and used [[leaf s
  4 KB (562 words) - 08:08, 14 June 2007
• Checker Motors Corporation
  ...is Markin]] in 1922 through a merger of [[Commonwealth Motors]] and Markin Automobile Body. ...in direct competition with [[John D. Hertz]], owner of the [[Yellow Cab]] of taxi cabs.
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• Autocar
  :''See [[Autocar (magazine)]] for the automotive magazine of the same name'' ...y 1907, the company had decided to concentrate on commercial vehicles, and the ''Autocar'' brand is still in use for commercial trucks.
  3 KB (428 words) - 05:30, 19 February 2007
• Durant Motors
  ...s Billy Durant) following his termination by the GM Board of Directors and the New York bankers. ...r realized; also planned was the "Eagle" car line but it never made it off the drafting tables.
  3 KB (426 words) - 06:58, 19 February 2007
• Elmore
  {{List of {{PAGENAME}} Models}} ...y took its name from its original place of manufacture, the nearby Village of Elmore. Founded by [[James Becker|James]] and [[Burton Becker|Burton Becker
  3 KB (388 words) - 10:37, 19 February 2010
• White Motor Company
  {{List of {{PAGENAME}} Models}}'''White Motor Company''' was an American [[automobile]] and [[truck]] manufacturer, in existence from 1902 to 1981. ==Automobile manufacturing==
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• Franklin
  ...n fact, he invented the term) before entering the automobile business with the engineer John Wilkinson. ...oned to be the largest user of aluminum in the world in the early years of the company.
  5 KB (819 words) - 06:48, 19 February 2007
• Mercer
  {{List of {{PAGENAME}} Models}} ...d suspension bridge design; engineering was not a recent concept for them. The secretary-treasurer was John L. Kuser, who, with his brothers Frederick and
  3 KB (432 words) - 01:38, 21 February 2007
• King
  {{List of {{PAGENAME}} Models}} The '''King''' was an automobile built in Detroit from 1911 to 1923, and in Buffalo in late 1923, with an ad
  4 KB (621 words) - 23:20, 20 May 2010
• Marathon Motor Works
  {{List of {{PAGENAME}} Models}} ...ustry. It turned its attention in this direction shortly after the turn of the twentieth century.
  4 KB (644 words) - 07:16, 20 February 2007
• REO Motor Car Company
  {{List of {{PAGENAME}} Models}} ...y that produced [[automobile]]s and trucks from 1905 to 1975. At one point the company also manufactured buses on its truck platforms.
  5 KB (837 words) - 08:19, 14 June 2007
• Oakland
  ...of {{PAGENAME}} Models}}[[Image:Oaklandauto1926.jpg|right|frame|An ad for the 1926 Oakland]] ...to GM in January 1909; when Murphy died in the summer of 1909, GM acquired the remaining rights to Oakland.
  4 KB (576 words) - 05:23, 19 February 2007
• Jordan Motor Car Company
  ...d not surprisingly, the company's advertising was often more original than the cars themselves. Said Jordan, “Cars are too dull and drab.” He reason ...even weeks later, while the second addition was completed within months of the first structure..
  7 KB (1,077 words) - 06:30, 19 February 2007
• Cartercar
  The '''Cartercar''' was an American [[automobile]] manufactured in 1905 in Jackson, Michigan, in 1906 in Detroit, and from 1 ...a regular geared transmission. <ref>Kimes, Beverly Rae. ''Standard Catalog of American Cars: 1805-1942'' (Iola, WI: Krause, 1996), p.258.</ref>
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