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The Ideal Motor Car Company, organized in June 1911 by Harry C. Stutz with his friend, Henry F Campbell, began building Stutz cars in Indianapolis in 1911. [2] They set this business up after a car built by Stutz in under five weeks and entered in the name of his Stutz Auto Parts Co. was placed 11th in the Indianapolis 500 earning it the slogan "the car that made good in a day".
Cole Motor Car Company Share of the Cole Motor Car Company, issued June 6, 1919 Company type Automobile Company Industry Manufacturing Founded 1909 Founder Joseph J. Cole Defunct 1925 Headquarters Indianapolis, Indiana, US Key people Joseph J. Cole (Executive Chairman & President) Charles S. Crawford (Chief Engineer) Products Automobiles The Cole Motor Car Company was an early automobile maker ...
General Motors. (1929–1995) The Allison Engine Company was an American aircraft engine manufacturer. Shortly after the death of James Allison in 1929 the company was purchased by the Fisher brothers. Fisher sold the company to General Motors, which owned it for most of its history. It was acquired by Rolls-Royce plc in 1995 to become the US ...
The 317 and 463 area codes covers the Metro Indianapolis area. The counties covered by 317 are Boone County, Hancock County, Hamilton County, Hendricks County, Johnson County, Marion County, Morgan County and Shelby County. 317 covered all of Northern and Central Indiana until 1948, when 219 was created. Central Indiana remained under the 317 ...
Frontenac Motors ad. Frontenac race car before the 1921 Indianapolis 500. Driver Tommy Milton at the wheel, with Barney Oldfield and Louis Chevrolet. Frontenac Motor Corporation was a joint venture of Louis Chevrolet, Indy 500 winner Joseph Boyer Jr., Indianapolis car dealer William Small, and Zenith Carburetor president Victor Heftler.
The 1904 four-cylinder Premier was a touring car model. Equipped with a tonneau, it could seat six passengers and sold for $1,400, equivalent to $47,476 in 2023. The vertically mounted water-cooled straight-4, situated at the front of the car, produced 40 hp (30 kW). A three-speed sliding transmission was fitted as on Système Panhard cars from ...
Joseph LaSorsa, a retired Secret Service agent who served from 1976 to 1996 and was on Reagan’s protective detail, said the post-Reagan era also saw the increased use of metal detectors for ...
The Overland Automobile department was founded in Terre Haute, Indiana, by Claude E. Cox, when Charles Minshall of Standard Wheel Company decided to expand into automobile manufacturing. Standard Wheel were major suppliers of wheels to the carriage industry. Cox, a recent graduate of Rose Polytechnic Institute, developed a gasoline runabout in ...