Leslie Motor Car company
The Leslie Motor Car company was a motor car company located in Detroit, Michigan in 1916.
This automobile company was most likely named for the city of Leslie, Michigan.
It was in operation for only one year and produced an unknown number of cars.
Most cars of this era, were sold or given by their owners for scrap metal drives during World War II.
James (automobile company)
The James automobile company (called the J&M Motor Car Company) was created in 1909 by H. K. James.
American Motor Car Company
The American Motor Car Company was a short- lived company in the automotive industry founded in 1906, lasting until 1913.
It was based in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States.
The American Motor Car Company pioneered the" underslung" design.
Wonder Motor Car Company
The Wonder Motor Car Company was a very short lived car company in 1909 that was derived from the Kansas City Motor Car Company as a last ditch effort to stay in business and continue car production.
The Kansas City Motor Car Company which made cars and trucks from 1905 to 1909 was itself derived from the Caps Brothers Manufacturing Company that briefly made cars in 1905.
No examples of any Caps Brothers, Kansas City, or Wonder cars or trucks are known to exist today.
Economist Group
The Economist Newspaper Limited, trading as The Economist Group, is a British multinational media company headquartered in London and best known as publisher of" The Economist".
The Economist Group specialises in international business and world affairs information.
Its principal activities are magazines, newspapers, conferences and market intelligence.
Reo Motor Car Company Plant
The Reo Motor Car Company Plant was an automotive manufacturing factory, built for the REO Motor Car Company, located at 2100 South Washington Street Lansing, Michigan.
It was designated a National Historic Landmark( NHL) and listed on the National Register of Historic Places( NRHP) in 1978, but completely demolished by the beginning of 1980.
It was delisted from the NRHP in 1986.
Pierce Manufacturing
Pierce Manufacturing is an American, Appleton, Wisconsin- based manufacturer of custom fire and rescue apparatus and a wholly owned subsidiary of Oshkosh Corporation.
Pierce was acquired by Oshkosh in 1996 and is currently the largest fire apparatus company in the world.
The company was founded in 1913 by Humphrey Pierce and his son Dudley as the Pierce Auto Body Works Inc., and concentrated on building custom truck bodies for the Ford Model T.
The first production facility was designed in 1917 and enlarged in 1918 by architect Wallace W. DeLong.
From the 1960s to the early 1980s, Pierce was primarily known for building custom bodies on commercial and other manufacturer's custom chassis, and was considered an original equipment manufacturer( OEM).
Although the" Arrow" name was used for its first custom chassis which debuted in 1979, the company has no affiliation with George N. Pierce's famous Pierce- Arrow Motor Car Company of Buffalo, New York, which operated from 1901 to 1938.
However, the Pierce- Arrow Motor Car Company coincidentally supplied 8- and 12- cylinder engines to Seagrave for use in their fire apparatus.
These engines continued to be made even after Pierce- Arrow ceased operation in 1938.
Seagrave continued to deliver fire apparatus with the" Pierce- Arrow" V- 12 until 1970.
Throughout the years, Pierce has had partnerships with various other manufacturers, notably when it came to aerial devices( it now engineers and builds all its own aerial devices in- house).
Such aerial manufacturers included Snorkel, Pitman, Aerial Innovations( AI), Ladder Towers Incorporated( LTI), Smeal, Bronto Skylift and Nova Quintech( whose assets Pierce/ Oshkosh acquired in 1997).
In addition to its main facilities in Wisconsin, it also has facilities in Bradenton, Florida.
The Florida facility is a manufacturing site for the custom Saber chassis and Responder line of apparatus.
Currently( December 4, 2017)
Pierce is the largest manufacturer of firefighting apparatus.
End-users are represented across a larger majority of the planet, including China.
The single largest municipal fleet of Pierce Manufacturing apparatus is located within the 407 square miles of Fairfax County, Virginia.
( Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department)
Walker Motor Car Company
The Walker Motor Car Company was active from 1905 to 1906 in Detroit, Michigan.
Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Company
The Pierce- Arrow Motor Car Company was an American motor vehicle manufacturer based in Buffalo, New York, which was active from 1901 to 1938.
Although best known for its expensive luxury cars, Pierce- Arrow also manufactured commercial trucks, fire trucks, camp trailers, motorcycles, and bicycles.
Harry C. Stutz
Harry Clayton Stutz( September 12, 1876 in Ohio – June 26, 1930) was an American automobile manufacturer, entrepreneur, self- taught engineer, and innovator in the automobile industry.
He was born in 1876 about east of Indianapolis, near Ansonia, Ohio, to farmer Henry J Stutz and his wife born Elizabeth Schneider.
On finishing his schooling he moved to Dayton, Ohio, and after working for Davis Sewing Machine and National Cash Register opened a machine shop and repair business in 1897, the next year he married Clara Marie Dietz.
Clara and Harry had one daughter.
Stutz grew up caring for and repairing agricultural machinery on the family farm.
Automobiles and engines fascinated him.
Stutz built his first car in 1897, and then in 1900 a second auto using a gasoline engine of his own design and manufacture.
He set up Stutz Manufacturing Company to build these engines selling it in late 1902 to Lindsay Automobile Parts Company of Indianapolis and he moved there along with the business.
With two others he established Central Motor Car Company but moved on to the Schebler Carburetor Company at the end of 1904 to sell their carburettors.
In 1905 he designed a car for the American Motor Car Company.
He moved again in 1907 to take up the appointment of chief engineer and factory manager at Marion Motor Car Company.
At Marion he became one of the company's racing drivers.
He formed Stutz Auto Parts Company in 1910 to manufacture his transaxle.
Becoming well- known for his activities he came to the attention of the founders of the Indianapolis racetrack and helped design their own car.
Caught up in the excitement around the up -coming 500 mile race, the first at the new racetrack, within just five weeks he built his own car and entered it in the race.
His car was placed 11th at the finish having stopped only for tires and fuel.
He immediately set about putting his Bear Cat into production.
To accomplish that Harry founded Ideal Motor Car Company renamed in June 1913 Stutz Motor Car Company( of Indiana).
Stutz Motor's racing program was very successful winning the( unofficial) national championships each year up to 1916 when they withdrew from competition.
To find more capital for his prospering business he fell in with a New York stockbroker, Allan A Ryan, and in 1916 Stutz Motor Car Company of America was listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
Ryan now controlled the business.
Uncomfortable with Ryan's business style Harry Stutz resigned in the middle of 1919 and started again by founding his H. C. S. Motor Car Company.
He also began making fire engines.
The fire engine business fared better than his H. C. S. Motor Car Company.
He divorced his wife in 1925 and married Blanche Clark Miller.
Harry seemed to lose interest in both businesses and with his new wife he moved to Orlando, Florida.
After 2 years under the control of creditors his businesses were liquidated.
In 1929 he designed a 4- cylinder engine for the Stutz- Bellanca Airplane Company.
Harry Stutz suddenly collapsed and died of a ruptured appendix in Indianapolis in the summer of 1930.
He is buried there at Crown Hill Cemetery.

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