1903 American Model A Runabout

 Jumping into the very young automobile market, the American Motor Carriage Company was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1901. Like many automobile manufacturers at the time, the American Motor Carriage Company struggled to compete for buyers. The short-lived company only produced automobiles in 1902 and 1903. This particular runabout, built in 1903, is identified as Number 047.

From The Horseless Age, Vol. XI, No. 11 (March 18, 1903).

 On the front of this American automobile are two Neverout Lamps made by the Rose Manufacturing Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A maker of lamps for bicycles in the late 1800s, the Rose Manufacturing Company moved into carriage, automobile, and motorboat lamps during the early 1900s.

From The L. A. W. Bulletin and Good
Roads, vol. XXV, no.16 (April 16, 1897).