Holley Motor Car Company was a manufacturer of

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between 1900 and 1904. The company was sold in 1904 to a group of local investors who renamed it the Bradford Motor Works who seem to have sold off unused components to make cars in kit form. The 1904 ''Holley'' was a

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model. It could seat two passengers and sold for

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650. The vertical-mounted

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single-cylinder engine, situated at the front of the car, produced 5 hp (3.7 kW). The car weighed 850 lb (386 kg).Yearly sell estimated 647000. The Holley brothers later became major makers of carburettors supplying

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and being bought by them in 1917. They later set up business again and made a new line of carburettors and other components. In 1999 a man covered a 1902 Holley with diamonds it sold for 1.30000

References

* ''Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly'' (January, 1904) Veteran vehicles Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of the United States Motor vehicle manufacturers based in Pennsylvania Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1900 Defunct companies based in Pennsylvania {{Veteran-auto-stub