The Selden Motor Vehicle Company was a Brass Era American manufacturer of automobiles. The company, founded in 1906, was based in Rochester, New York,...
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began his own car company in Rochester under the name Selden Motor Vehicle Company. However, Henry Ford, owner of the Ford Motor Company, founded in Detroit...
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(Kandersteg) Selden (surname) Selden, character from Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles Selden Motor Vehicle Company, an early automobile manufacturer...
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Car (redirect from Passenger Vehicle)
A car, or an automobile, is a motor vehicle with wheels. Most definitions of cars state that they run primarily on roads, seat one to eight people, have...
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industry by George B. Selden and the Electric Vehicle Company. Ultimately, the organization took advantage of its power and became Selden's greatest ally. In...
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edition. Dutton Press, New York 1973, ISBN 0-525-08351-0 The Selden Motor Wagon Photos of the vehicle, plus articles about the gestation of the patent and the...
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This is a chronological index for the start year for motor vehicle brands (up to 1969). For manufacturers that went on to produce many models, it represents...
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The Ford Motor Company is an American automaker, the world's fifth largest based on worldwide vehicle sales. Based in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit...
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The Duryea Motor Wagon Company, established in 1895 in Springfield, Massachusetts, was the first American firm to build gasoline automobiles. Founded...
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REO Motor Car Company was a company based in Lansing, Michigan, which produced automobiles and trucks from 1905 to 1975. At one point, the company also...
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positions in several vocational segments. The company was originally called the "Pittsburgh Motor Vehicle Company" when started in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...
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History of the automobile (redirect from Advent of the motor car)
remains the oldest operating motor vehicle manufacturer in the US. However, it was Ransom E. Olds and his Olds Motor Vehicle Company (later known as Oldsmobile)...
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A patent filed by George B. Selden on 8 May 1879 covered not only his engine but its use in a four-wheeled car. Selden filed a series of amendments to...
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Liberty truck (category World War I vehicles)
MI- 5 Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Company of Buffalo, NY- 975 Republic Motor Truck Company of Alma, MI- 967 Selden Motor Vehicle Company of Rochester, NY- 1...
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Standard (1904 automobile) (category Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of the United States)
twelve vehicles a week. The company acquired a Selden patent license. In January 1904, U. S. Long Distance was reorganized as the Standard Motor Construction...
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involved in licensing and collecting royalties from the George Baldwin Selden engine patent. Henry Ford effectively defeated the patent in court in 1911...
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List of defunct automobile manufacturers of the United States (redirect from Beisel Motorette Company)
in Seattle Ajax Motor Vehicle Company (1901–1903) Based in New York City Aland Motor Car Company (1916–1917) Albany Automobile Company (1907–1908) Alden...
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Chase Motor Truck Company (1907–1919), founded by Aurin M. Chase, was a manufacturer of trucks in Syracuse, New York. The vehicles were known for their...
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Diamond T (redirect from Diamond T Motor Car Company)
Diamond T Company was an American automobile and truck manufacturer. They produced commercial and military trucks. The Diamond T Motor Car Company was founded...
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Smith and Mabley (category Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of the United States)
1903 after seven vehicles had been manufactured. In 1903 Smith and Mabley, along with Winton was sued regarding infringement of the Selden Patent. Later...
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Pak-Age-Car (category Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of the United States)
network. Stutz Motor Company took over the company wholesale in 1932, hoping that the truck would save the failing company. The Pak-Age-Car company was not enough...
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Flint Wagon Works (category General Motors facilities)
Wagon Works dissolved the old Buick Motor Company and incorporated a wholly new entity, The Buick Motor Company, on January 29, 1904. Its initial capital...
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Antique car (category Conservation and restoration of vehicles)
America (HCCA) defines this era as "any pioneer gas, steam and electric motor vehicle built or manufactured prior to January 1, 1916". The era of antique...
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manufacturer of commercial vehicles in Waterloo, Iowa, that was established around 1910. The company began with light commercial vehicles for farmers in Waterloo...
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first such publication.: 31 Selden patent. The Morris & Salom Electrobat was the beginnings of the Electric Vehicle Company of Philadelphia. This firm...
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to own a trucking company for each region in the US. TNT already owned TNT Red Star Express Lines in the northeast, TNT Holland Motor Express in the midwest...
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TForce Freight (redirect from Motor Cargo)
traded company through an initial public offering of $475 million under the ticker symbol OVNT. UPS acquired Overnite and its subsidiary, Motor Cargo,...
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Alexander Winton (category Scottish company founders)
litigation of the fledgling automobile industry by George B. Selden and the Electric Vehicle Company. In 1912, Winton founded the Winton Gas Engine & Mfg. Co...
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Olds, founded the Olds Motor Vehicle Company in Lansing, Michigan. In 1899, Smith was one of the founders of the new Olds Motor Works. Smith together with...
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High wheeler (category Veteran vehicles)
Auto Wagon Sears Model L Patent drawing for the Duryea Road Vehicle, 1895 George B. Selden driving an automobile in 1905 Lenoir Hippomobile, 1863 Before...
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