Courier Car Co.

The Courier Car Co. was an automobile manufacturer that was founded in 1909 by Stoddard - Dayton in Dayton (Ohio ) to produce smaller, lighter and cheaper car models as the parent company.

The advertising slogans made ​​advertisement for an early form of medium-sized car: " Do not buy more car than you need .... Buy yes no car with higher power or larger interior space than you need " The cars built on a chassis with 2,540 mm wheelbase and the engine produced 22.5 bhp ( 16.5 kW). There were four-cylinder models with 3,245 cc or 3,638 cc.

The cars were comparable in size to the Ford Model T, but had three forward gears instead of two as in the Ford Moreover, the Courier took more gas to. There were only two different bodies. A 4- seater touring car and a 2- seater Sportster.

Together with Stoddard - Dayton Courier went on in the United States Motor Company. After the takeover welcomed the 1912 models offered Courier Clermont. Production ceased in 1913 when the United States Motor Company collapsed.

Courier made ​​in the buildings of the former Kinsey Manufacturing at the southwest corner of the intersection Wayne Avenue and State Street (now Fourth Street ). Today, there resides the Dayton Plumbing Supply Co..

The discovery and restoration of a Courier is treated in a chapter of Ralph Steuben smoke book, The Fun of Old Cars.