What is Locomobile Company of America?
[[File:Locomobile 1905 logo.jpg|thumb|right|300px|{{Center|The Locomobile Company of America 1905 logo}}]] [[File:Locomobile Steam Car 1900 - Flickr - mick - Lumix.jpg|thumb|right|300px|{{Center|1901 Locomobile (rebadged Stanley Steamer)}}]] The '''Locomobile Company of America''' was a company founded in 1899 by [[John Brisben Walker|John B. Walker]]. He and his partner [[Amzi L. Barber]] bought the rights to manufacture the [[steam car]] built by the Stanley brothers. They called the car the Locomobile. In 1904 the company began producing [[Internal combustion engine|gasoline-powered]] cars and continued in business until 1929. == Early history == [[Francis Edgar Stanley|Francis E. Stanley]] and [[Freelan Oscar Stanley|Freelan O. Stanley]] had invented a steam car. In 1899 they purchased a [[bicycle]] factory in [[Watertown, Massachusetts]] and began building their cars.<ref name=Phillips596>Lou Phillips, ''Cars'' (Bloomington, IN: Xlibris Corporation, 2011), p. 596</ref> [[John Brisben Walker|John B. Walker]], the owner of [[Cosmopolitan (magazine)|Cosmopolitan magazine]], offered to buy half the company. The Stanley brothers said no. When Walker came back a few weeks later he offered to buy the whole car company. The brothers thought about it and set the price at $250,000 [[USD]]. The set the price high enough they thought nobody would pay it.<ref name=LocomobileSoc>{{cite web |url=http://www.locomobilesociety.com/history.cfm |title=The History of The Best Built Car in America |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=2007 |website= |publisher=The Locomobile Society |accessdate=6 September 2014 |archive-date=21 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151221202914/http://locomobilesociety.com/history.cfm |url-status=dead }}</ref> But Walker did and the two Stanley brothers stayed on to run the factory.<ref name=LocomobileSoc/> Walker's partner was [[Amzi L. Barber]]. They called the new company Locomobile. Within a few months Walker and Barber had a [[wikt:disagreement|disagreement