Halladay

Halladay is a surname which may refer to:

See also

Halladay (automobile)

The Halladay Motor Car company was founded in 1905 in Chicago, Illinois and moved to Ohio in 1917.

Origins

The company originally began in Anderson, Indiana with the Erie Motor Carriage & Manufacturing Company. It was bought-out in 1902 by Lou P. Halladay. He spent a year earning $30,000 in capital, and made the Streator Automobile & and Manufacturing Company(the company kept this name until 1913).

As the Streator Automobile & and Manufacturing Company

The first car came out in 1904 with great secrecy. It was a 5-passenger touring with a 4-cylinder engine. The engines came from the Rutenber company. In 1908, the company added a Runabout and a Limousine. The cars were well built, an example was that in 1910, a Halladay was the only car to finish a 250-mile race in Atlanta About 900 cars were made every year. However, on September 23, 1911, the company fell into receivership. The company had $250,000 in liabilities. In January 1913, the company's personal property were sold to the firm Merchants' Realization Company, which then sold it to Albert C. Barley, the secretary of the Rutenber motor Company.Models