Overland was established in 1903 as the Overland Automotive Division of the Standard Wheel Company in Terre Haute, Indiana, with a 5-horsepower gasoline runabout designed by Claude E. Cox. Overland moved to Indianapolis in 1905 and was sold to Cox, who partnered with investor David M. Parry who formed the Overland Auto Company. In 1906, Overland produced 47 cars and all were sold to dealer John North Willys of Elmira, New York. Following the Panic of 1907, Willys purchased control of Overland in 1908 and increased production to 467 cars, then to 4,907 in 1909, when Cox left to work for the new Inter-State Automobile Company in Muncie, and Willys moved Overland to the former Pope-Toledo factory in Toledo, Ohio. In 1912 the company would be renamed to the Willys-Overland Motor Company and from 1912 to 1918 it would be America's second-largest automobile manufacturer after Ford. The Overland marque would be used until the 1926 introduction of the Whippet. This 1911 Overland Model 49 is a 5-passenger Touring Car with a 102-inch wheelbase powered by a 25-horsepower 199-cubic-inch inline 4-cylinder L-head engine with a 3-speed selective sliding gear transmission. The Model 49 was originally priced at $1,095.00 and dark blue was the standard color. This example was photographed at the Northwest Car Collectors Association Car Show & Swap Meet at the Portland Metropolitan Exposition Center in Portland, Oregon, on October 18-19, 2003.
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