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Defunct American motor vehicle manufacturer This article is about the company that produced the 'Bay State' model of the 1920s. For the Brass Era manufacturer, see Bay State Automobile Co.
R. H. Long Motors Company
Company typeAutomobile manufacturing
IndustryAutomotive
Founded1922
FounderRichard H. Long
Defunct1926
HeadquartersFramingham, Massachusetts, United States
Area servedUnited States
ProductsVehicles
Automotive parts

The R. H. Long Motors Company was a Framingham, Massachusetts-based automobile manufacturer that operated from 1922 to 1926. They produced the Bay State model automobile, which used a Continental Motors Company six-cylinder engine.

The company was founded by Richard H. Long, a shoe manufacturer from Framingham. During World War I, Long's factory switched to manufacturing war supplies, including high-grade automobile bodies. In 1922, R. H. Long Motors Company began production of the Bay State.

Although R. H. Long Motors ceased car production in 1926, the Long Automotive Group, an automobile dealership founded in 1927, was started from the remains of the business. Long Automotive still exists today in Southborough, Massachusetts (Long Cadillac), the world's oldest continually-owned Cadillac dealership, and Webster, Massachusetts (Long Subaru).

There are two remaining Bay State cars, a 1925roadster and a 1924 sedan model one, are known to exist.

1922 advertisements for Long's Bay State models
  • 1922 Bay State advertisement with car drawing 1922 Bay State advertisement with drawing
  • 1922 Bay State advertisement with car photo 1922 Bay State advertisement with photo

References

  1. ^ "About Us: R.H. Long Motor Co". Long Automotive Group. Retrieved February 26, 2018.
  2. "The Bay State Automobile & The R.H. Long Company". americanautomobiles.com. Retrieved February 26, 2018.
  3. "Bay State Makes Real Impression". The Boston Daily Globe. March 12, 1922.
  4. Cegelis, Sylvia (June 14, 1975). "The 'Bay State' Returns". South Middlesex News. Retrieved February 26, 2018.
  5. "Early American Automobiles 1925-1929". earlyamericanautomobiles.com. Retrieved February 26, 2018.


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