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Harry C. Stutz and Henry F Campbell, founded the Ideal Motor Car in Indianapolis in 1911. It merged with the Stutz Auto Parts Company in 1913 and…
John W. Stoddard founded the Dayton Motor Car Company in Dayton, Ohio, in 1905. . Stoddard established a reputation as winning race cars. In 1909, a…
William Bushnell "Bill" Stout (1880-1956) worked at the Scripps-Booth Automobile Company and Packard Motor Car Company. In 1919, he founded the Stout…
The Studebaker brothers of South Bend, Indiana founded the company in 1852 and incorporated in 1868 as the Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company.…
Kiichiro Toyoda founded the company in 1933 as a division of Toyoda Automatic Loom Works. Toyota Motor Co. was established as an independent and…
Preston Tucker founded the Tucker Corporation on July 8, 1946. Tucker, a former policeman and salesman, intended to launch an independent car company.…
In 1943, Czech brothers František and MojmírStránský designed a small, cheap three-wheeled car for disabled veterans. By 1945, the duralumin bodywork…
Alexander Wilson founded Alex Wilson and Company at Vauxhall, London in 1857 to build pumps and marine engines. In 1903 the company built its first…
Ernst Loof, Georg Meier and Lorenz Dietrich founded BMW-Veritas in 1947, rebuilding and tuning pre-war BMW 328 cars. BMW objected to the name and the…
Willard Velie (pronounced "Vee-Lee") founded Velie Motor Vehicle Company in 1908, located in Moline, Illinois. Velie died in October 1928 and his son…
In 1967, John Gould started Unique Mobility to be a car manufacturer. Between 1979-1982, Unique Mobility built the Electrek Uncar. The exact number…
Lou Richards owned Formax, which manufactured hamburger patty forming machinery. He began building three-wheeled vehicles in Mokena, Illinois in 1982…
In 1946, Trevor Wilkinson purchased an old wheelwright's workshop in Beverley Grove, Blackpool, to start a general engineering business that he named…
In 1885, Siegfried Bettmann formed S. Bettmann & Co. and started importing bicycles from Europe, selling them under his own trade name in London. The…
R. D. Taylor Sr. started the company in Anaheim, California in 1949, building hand carts to use while feeding his chickens. In 1951, he built his…
Leslie Hayward Hounsfield founded Trojan in 1914. It built a variety of cars, light commercial vehicles, garden tractors, and minibikes until 1965. …
Volkswagen was founded in 1937 by the German Labor Front under the Nazi Party and revived after World War II. It is most famous for the Beetle,…
The Swedish firm SKF trademarked the brand name Volvo in 1911 for a new series of ball bearings. In 1924, Assar Gabrielsson, an SKF sales manager,…
The Rockne was an American automobile brand produced by the Studebaker Corporation of South Bend, Indiana, from 1932 to 1933. The brand was named for…
Rolls-Royce is a British luxury car and later an aero-engine manufacturing business established in 1904 in Manchester by the partnership of Charles…
Charles Herman Metz began in business in 1886 making bicycle parts, and in 1893 formed the Waltham Manufacturing Company with Herbert L. Thompson,…
Henry Ford founded the Ford Motor Company on June 16, 1903. The company sells automobiles and commercial vehicles under the Ford brand, and luxury…
The Société Anonyme L'Auto Métallurgique built Métallurgique cars at Marchienne-au-Pont, Belgium between 1898 and 1928. Métallurgique was most noted…
Flint Motors was a wholly owned subsidiary of Durant Motors Company, with its vehicles assembled by the Flint Motors Division, Flint, Michigan between…
In 1908, Walter E. Flanders (1871–1923) left the Ford Motor Company and co-founded, together with Bernard F. Everitt and William Metzger, the E-M-F…
Soichiro Honda (1906–1991) initially worked as a mechanic at the Art Shokai garage, where he tuned cars and entered them in races. In 1937, with…
On April 25, 1931, Professor Ferdinand Porsche had his company officially entered in the commercial register as “Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche GmbH,…
The Durant Motors Company assembled Star-brand automobiles between 1922 and 1928. Also known as the Star Car, Star was a competitor against the Ford…
Finlay Robertson Porter (F.R.P.), a native of Lowell, Ohio, was chief engineer at the Mercer Company from 1910 to 1914 and was the creator of the…
Competitors for many years, DMG and Benz & Cie. enter into a joint venture in May 1924. They focused on remaining competitive through coordinated…
Abendroth & Root Manufacturing Company was an American manufacturer of water heaters, water tanks and other sanitation equipment, and later,…
Mercury was a brand of mid-priced automobiles produced by Ford Motor Company between 1938 and 2011 with 1939 being the first model year. It stood as…
The company's history dates back to 1916 as an aircraft manufacturer. It underwent many organizational changes, and Willy Messerschmitt joined the…
MG cars had their roots in a 1920s sales promotion sideline of Morris Garages, a retail sales and service center in Oxford belonging to William…
Aston Martin Lagonda Global Holdings PLC is a British manufacturer of luxury sports cars and grand tourers. Its predecessor was founded in 1913 by…
Aircraft producer Bayerische Flugzeugwerke became Bayerische Motoren Werke (BMW) in 1922. After World War I, BMW built motorcycle engines, farm…
Sunbeam Motor Car Company Limited was a British automobile manufacturer in operation between 1905 and 1934. John Marsten registered the Sunbeam name…
Brother Fred and August Duesenberg founded Duesenberg Automobile & Motors Company, Inc. in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1920. Duesenbergs were considered…
Chrysler launched the Plymouth brand in 1928 to compete in the "low-priced" market segment dominated by Chevrolet and Ford. Chrysler discontinued…
Talbot-Lago was a French automobile manufacturer based in Suresnes, Hauts de Seine, outside Paris. Antonio Lago owned and managed the company. He…
American Motors Corporation (often called AMC or American Motors) was an American automobile manufacturing company formed by the merger of…
Enzo Ferrari (1898-1988) founded Ferrari S.p.A. in Maranello, Italy. The company built its first car in 1940, adopted its current name in 1945, and…
De Dion-Bouton was a French automobile manufacturer and railcar manufacturer, which operated from 1883 to 1953. The company was founded by the Marquis…
Amilcar was a French automobile manufactured from 1921 to 1940. Joseph Lamy and Emile Akar founded the company in 1921. The name "Amilcar" was an…
Datsun was a Japanese automobile manufacturer brand owned by Nissan. Datsun's original production run began in 1931. From 1958 to 1986, only vehicles…
Ferruccio Lamborghini (1916–1993) founded Automobili Ferruccio Lamborghini S.p.A. in 1963 to compete with Ferrari. Lamborghini sold the company to…
Herbert H. Franklin founded the Franklin Automobile Company in 1902 in Syracuse, New York. The Franklin featured air-cooled engines and in the early…
Hispano-Suiza was a Spanish automotive–engineering company, founded 1904 by Marc Birkigt and Damian Mateu. It eventually had several factories in…
Alfa Romeo Automobiles S.p.A. was founded in 1910 in Milan, Italy, as Anonima Lombarda Fabbrica Automobili (ALFA). In 1915, Alfa came under the…
The Argo Electric Vehicle Company was an electric automobile manufacturer that operated in Saginaw, Michigan, United States, from 1912 to 1916. By…