- (The car that has no valves - Elmore 1908)
- This link included for interest only!
- The Elmore
Manufacturing Company began manufacturing bicycles in Elmore, Ohio, in 1892,
and relocated to Clyde, where it operated from 1893 to 1912. The
company began to build automobiles in 1898. The cars had
2-cycle, valveless engines. The 1904 Pathfinder model won an
endurance race from New York to St. Louis, and was exhibited at the World's
Fair. Elmore cars were also used as
taxicabs. At the height of its operation, the company made
nearly 1200 cars a year. In 1909 the owners sold the
company to General Motors, which later moved it to Detroit, and eventually
stopped production of the Elmore cars.
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- Below is an ad from the 1907 Cosmopolitan magazine for the Elmore car.
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