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Industry
  
Automotive

Founded
  
1907

Defunct
  
1914

Ceased operations
  
1914

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Former type
  
Automobile Manufacturing

Headquarters
  

The Speedwell Motor Car Company was an early United States automobile manufacturing company established by Pierce Davies Schenck that produced cars from 1907 to 1914. The company's factory rented space for the Wright Company to build its airplanes from February to November 1910 while the Wright Company built its own factory building in west Dayton. The Great Dayton Flood of 1913 greatly damaged the Speedwell factory in Dayton's Edgemont neighborhood and its inventory, and the company entered receivership in 1915.

Its factory site later hosted a Delco factory. The Speedwell factory buildings are not extant.

History

In 1911, Speedwell built a closed two-door, dubbed a sedan, which was the first recorded use of the term.

In England, another car was marketed under the Speedwell name from 1900 to 1908. Other than the name, the two companies are unrelated.

References

Speedwell Motor Car Company Wikipedia


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