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Initially founded with the intent to produce steam powered motorcars, Locomobile would eventually find its niche as a purveyor of fine quality, large scale luxury automobiles. The company started life…

No fewer than five companies bore the surname of the ambitious industrialist Col. Albert Augustus Pope; a man who created a short-lived but prestigious empire of automobile manufacturers which offered…

John T. Rainier got his start in the automobile business around the turn of the 20th century when he purchased the Brooklyn, New York-based truck and bus manufacturer Vehicle Equipment…

When the 40/50 horsepower “Silver Ghost” debuted in 1907 it was the most advanced motorcar money could buy. Centered on Henry Royce’s 7,428cc side-valve inline-six, the Silver Ghost was an…

Jacob Rauch was a well-known carriage maker in Cleveland, Ohio who formed a partnership with Charles Lang, a real estate magnate, selling Buffalo Electric automobiles in 1903.  Two years later…

The Ford Model T is perhaps the best known early American automobile.  More than 15 million were built and sold from 1908 to 1928.  A myriad of body styles were produced:…

William Patterson began building horse-drawn carriages in Flint, MI in the late 1800’s.  By 1908, Paterson had abandoned the carriage business to build his first powered automobile.  By 1910, his…

The Locomobile Company of Bridgeport, Connecticut was one of the most prestigious American cars in the early twentieth century.  They came into being in 1899 selling a steam-powered runabout that…

Walter Austin, the son of  lumber baron James E. Austin, started the Austin Automobile Company in 1903 in Grand Rapids, Michigan.  The first Austin had been a big, tw0-cylinder vehicle…