Elmore

Elmore was an automobile and bicycle manufacturer headquartered in Clyde, Ohio, from 1893 until 1912, taking its name from a small parcel of land called Elmore where a stave mill had stood. Harmon Von Vechten Becker and his sons James and Burton founded it, and its cars used a two-stroke engine in straight twin or single-cylinder form, followed by a straight three and, from 1906, a straight four. Its advertising slogan was The Car That Has No Valves. William C. Durant, the founder of General Motors, noticed the three-cylinder two-stroke and bought the company in 1909 for 500,000 dollars, making it one of General Motors' divisions, but the marque was cut after Durant was forced out in 1910.