The Porter Motor Company was an early American steam automobile manufacturer based in
Allston, Massachusetts.
[Clymer, Floyd. ''Treasury of Early American Automobiles, 1877-1925'' (New York: Bonanza Books, 1950), p.13.]
Major Dane Porter (first name is Major) built the
steam powered Porter
Stanhope from 1900 to 1901 and advertised it as ''"The Only Perfect Automobile"''. Offices were located at 950 Tremont Building,
Boston
Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...
.
The Porter
runabout featured an
aluminium
Aluminium (aluminum in American and Canadian English) is a chemical element with the symbol Al and atomic number 13. Aluminium has a density lower than those of other common metals, at approximately one third that of steel. I ...
body and a weight of 550-lbs. It was capable of 25-mph, and was priced at $750, .
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VirtualSteamCarMuseum - Porter Motor Co.SteamCarNetwork - 1901 Porter Stanhope Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of the United States
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Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1900
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