The Porter Motor Company was an early American steam automobile manufacturer based in
Allston, Massachusetts
Allston is an officially recognized neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It was named after the American painter and poet Washington Allston. It comprises the land covered by the zip code 02134. For the most part, Allston is ...
.
[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
A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. The steam engine uses the force produced by steam pressure to push a piston back and forth inside a cylinder. This pushing force can be trans ...
Porter
Stanhope from 1900 to 1901 and advertised it as ''"The Only Perfect Automobile"''. Offices were located at 950 Tremont Building,
Boston
Boston is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and Financial centre, financial center of New England, a region of the Northeas ...
.
The Porter
runabout featured an
aluminium
Aluminium (or aluminum in North American English) is a chemical element; it has chemical symbol, symbol Al and atomic number 13. It has a density lower than that of other common metals, about one-third that of steel. Aluminium has ...
body and a weight of 550-lbs. It was capable of 25-mph, and was priced at $750, .
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See also
VirtualSteamCarMuseum - Porter Motor Co.SteamCarNetwork - 1901 Porter Stanhope Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of the United States
Motor vehicle manufacturers based in Massachusetts
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1900
Vehicle manufacturing companies disestablished in 1901
History of Boston
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Cars introduced in 1900