< Porter Motor Co. Boston, MA

Porter Motor Co.

The Porter steam car used a 2-cylinder engine and had a maximum speed of about 25 mph. Steering was by tiller which was usual on such cars, but the aluminum body had less angular lines than most of the Porter's contemporaries.[1]
Porter Motor Company, The Strand Magazine, May 1900 Porter Motor Company, June 1900, Unknown Magazine

The Porter Motor Company advertisement appeared in The Strand Magazine in May 1900 [left] and in The Wide World Magazine for June 1900 [right].

Porter Motor Company Advertisement - Clymer

The Porter Motor Company advertisement appeared in Floyd Clymer's Steam Car Scrapbook, p. 35. As with almost all of the illustrations and material in his Scrapbook, (a very appropriate description) Clymer lists no sources.[2]

[1]Georgano, G. N., Encyclopedia of American Automobile, (New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1968), p. 162.

[2]Clymer, Floyd, Steam Car Scrapbook (1954 Bonanza Books), p. 35.