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Motors · Kenosha, Wisconsin, United States
The Thomas B. Jeffery Company
December 6, 1900 - 1916
A bicycle man bought a dead bicycle factory in Kenosha, and cars were built on that ground for the next eighty-six years.
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Motors · Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
The Marmon Motor Car Company
1902 - 1933
The first Indianapolis 500 was won by a company engineer driving a car with a mirror bolted to it.
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Motors · Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
The Duryea Motor Wagon Company
1895 - 1917
The first American company to build gasoline automobiles broke up over a proposal to move to Detroit.
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Motors · Cleveland, Ohio, United States
The Winton Motor Carriage Company
March 15, 1897 - February 11, 1924
In 1903 a doctor bought a used car on a fifty-dollar bet and drove it from San Francisco to New York, because nobody had done it yet.
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Motors · Buffalo, New York, United States
The Thomas Flyer
1900 - 1919
In February 1908 six cars left Times Square to drive around the world.
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Motors · Syracuse, New York, United States
The Franklin Automobile Company
1902 - April 1934
For thirty-two years, a factory on Syracuse's west side built cars with no radiator.
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