Car - 1904 Reo Runabout US trade postcard 1976

Postcard

 

• Picture / Image:  1904 Reo Runabout
• Publisher:  Butts Buick Inc., Santa Barbara, California - reminder for a service card.
• Postally used:  yes
• Stamp:  no - meter mark
• Postmark(s):  Santa Barbara May 22 1978
• Sent to:  Santa Barbara
• Notes & Key words: 

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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The REO Motor Car Company was a Lansing, Michigan based company that produced automobiles and trucks from 1905 to 1975. At one point the company also manufactured buses on its truck platforms.

REO was initiated by Ransom E. Olds during August 1904. Olds had 52 percent of the stock and the titles of president and general manager. To ensure a reliable supply of parts, he organized a number of subsidiary firms like the National Coil Company, the Michigan Screw Company, and the Atlas Drop Forge Company.

Originally the company was to be called "R. E. Olds Motor Car Company," but the owner of Olds' previous company, then called Olds Motor Works, objected and threatened legal action on the grounds of likely confusion of names by consumers.^[1] Olds then changed the name to his initials. Olds Motor Works soon adopted the popular name of its vehicles, Oldsmobile. Then instead of two "Olds" companies there were none.

The company's name was spelled alternately in all capitals REO or with only an initial capital as Reo, and the company's own literature was inconsistent in this regard, with early advertising using all capitals and later advertising using the "Reo" capitalization.^[2] The pronunciation, however, was as a single word (like "rio"), never as letters (like the band "REO Speedwagon").

Lansing is home to the R. E. Olds Transportation Museum.