Reo Model M touring. The company “Reo Motor car” was founded by R. Olds (who at the same time was the founder of the “Oldsmobile” company, but had to leave it), in 1904. 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.
In 1917 the company introduced the model M as a competitor to the cars of companies such as Buick and Chalmers. The model has good proportions and a large in-line six-cylinder engine with a capacity of 45 hp. In terms of size and power, no car could match the price of the Model M (up to $ 1,550).
Vadim Zadorozhny’s Museum of Equipment, Moscow
Years of production: 1917
Country of origin: USA
Issued: no data
Weight: 1950 kg
Power: 45 hp
Speed: 110 km / h
The 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 manufactured buses on its truck platforms.
Ransom E. Olds was an entrepreneur who founded multiple companies in the automobile industry. In 1897 Olds founded Oldsmobile. In 1905 Olds left Oldsmobile and established a new company, REO Motor Car Company, in Lansing, Michigan. Olds had 52% 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).
