REO Motor Car Company
The REO Motor Car Company was a Lansing, Michigan-based company that produced automobiles and trucks from 1905 to 1975.
At one point the company also manufactured buses on its truck platforms.
Ransom E. Olds was an entrepreneur who founded multiple companies in the automobile industry.
In 1897 Olds founded the Olds Motor Vehicle Company, makers of Oldsmobile (later to become a part of General Motors).
In 1905 Olds left Oldsmobile and established a new company, REO Motor Car Company, in Lansing, Michigan.
Olds had 52 percent of the stock and the titles of president and general manager.
To ensure a reliable supply of parts, he organized a number of subsidiary firms like the National Coil Company, the Michigan Screw Company, and the Atlas Drop Forge Company.
Originally the company was to be called "R. E. Olds Motor Car Company," but the owner of Olds' previous company, then called Olds Motor Works, objected and threatened legal action on the grounds of likely confusion of names by consumers.
Olds then changed the name to his initials.
Olds Motor Works soon adopted the popular name of its vehicles, Oldsmobile (which, along with Buick and Cadillac, became a founding division of General Motors Corporation).
The company's name was spelled alternately in all capitals REO or with only an initial capital as Reo, and the company's own literature was inconsistent in this regard, with early advertising using all capitals and later advertising using the "Reo" capitalization.
The pronunciation, however, was as a single word.
Lansing is home to the R. E. Olds Transportation Museum.
Caps Brothers Manufacturing Company
The Caps Brothers Manufacturing Company was a very short lived car company in 1905 that was taken over by the Kansas City Motor Car Company, which made cars and trucks from 1905 to 1909 before briefly becoming the Wonder Motor Car Company which made the 1909 Kansas City Wonder car.
No examples of any Caps Brothers, Kansas City, or Wonder cars or trucks are known to exist today.
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.
Badger (automobile company)
The Badger Motor car company of Columbus, Wisconsin, United States, was an automobile company founded in 1910.
Ransom E. Olds
Ransom Eli Olds (June 3, 1864 – August 26, 1950) was a pioneer of the American automotive industry, after whom the Oldsmobile and REO brands were named.
He claimed to have built his first steam car as early as 1887 and his first gasoline-powered car in 1896.
The modern assembly line and its basic concept is credited to Olds, who used it to build the first mass-produced automobile, the Oldsmobile Curved Dash, beginning in 1901.
Siva Motor Car Company
The Siva Motor Car Company was a British manufacturer of automobiles active from 1970 to 1976.
John Nicholson Anhut
John Nicholson Anhut (January 8, 1884May 1977) was the founder of the Anhut Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan.
Walker Motor Car Company
The Walker Motor Car Company was active from 1905 to 1906 in Detroit, Michigan.
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.
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.

Question: What is the date of death of the founder of Reo Motor Car Company?
Answer: August 26, 1950