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Overland Automobile Company 
Former type Automobile Manufacturing Industry Automotive Fate Acquired by John North Willys Successor Willys-Overland Founded 1903 Founder(s) Claude Cox Defunct 1926 Headquarters Indianapolis, Indiana The Overland Automobile Company was a United States-based automobile manufacturer.
History
The Overland Automobile "runabout" was founded by Claude Cox, a graduate of Rose Polytechnic Institute, while he was employed by Standard Wheel Company of Terre Haute, Indiana, USA, in 1903. In 1905, Standard Wheel allowed Cox to relocate the Overland Automobile Company to Indianapolis, Indiana, and he got a partner.
In 1908, Overland Motors was purchased by John North Willys. In 1912, it was renamed Willys-Overland.
Overlands continued to be produced until 1926 when the marque was succeeded by the Willys Whippet.
The last vestige of the Overland automobile empire remains in the form of bricks spelling out "Overland" in the smoke stacks at the Toledo factory that once formed the core of Willys automotive empire. But the name would come back when DaimlerChrysler introduced the Overland name for a trim package on the 2003–present Jeep Grand Cherokee. The badging is a recreation of the Overland nameplate from the early twentieth century.
Media
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1909 Overland Automobile Advertisement
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1911 Overland Automobile Advertisement - Indianapolis Star, November 27, 1910
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Tom McKelvey in his Overland race car before the 1915 American Grand Prize at San Francisco
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D.J. Harkness at the wheel of an Overland Sports car, 1920 - 1929
External links
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- Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of the United States
- Motor vehicle manufacturers based in Indiana
- Defunct companies based in Indiana
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