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{{short description|Defunct American motor vehicle manufacturer}}
The '''States''' was a [[Engineering:Cyclecar|cyclecar]] manufactured by the '''States Cyclecar Company''' of Detroit, Michigan in 1915.<ref name=":0">{{Kimes-USCars3rd}}</ref>

The '''States Motor Car Company''' manufactured the Greyhound cyclecar built first in Toledo, Ohio and then in Kalamazoo, Michigan from 1913 to 1915. From 1916 the successor '''States Motor Manufacturing Company''' built the Greyhound and then the States automobile in Kalamazoo from 1917-1919.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Georgano-EncAuto3v}}</ref>

== States Cyclecar Company ==
[[File:1915 State Cyclecar advertisement in Carette magazine.jpg|thumb|1915 States cyclecar advertisement in Carette magazine]]
The States Cyclecar Company was organized in Detroit in July 1914 with a $150,000 capitalization by major stockholders George W. Meredith, Samuel E. Jones and Victor W. Valade.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QKgyAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22states+cyclecar%22&pg=PA165 |title=Cycle and Automobile Trade Journal |date=1914 |publisher=Chilton Company |language=en}}</ref>  The States was a four-cylinder, two-passenger side-by-side [[Engineering:Roadster (automobile)|roadster]] body and came fully equipped including a mohair top for $365, {{Inflation|US|365|1915|fmt=eq}}.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vag6AQAAMAAJ&q=%22states+cyclecar%22 |title=Carette: America's First Carette and Cyclecar |date=1914 |language=en}}</ref> The States was introduced at the Detroit Automobile Show in January 1915, and closed later that year.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />

== States Motor Car Company ==
[[File:1918 States Model B Touring Car - Cycle and Automobile Trade Journal.jpg|thumb|1918 States Model B Touring Car - Cycle and Automobile Trade Journal]]
The States Motor Car Manufacturing Company and the previous States Motor Car Company which had built the Greyhound cyclecar and light cars in the old Michigan Buggy Company plant in Kalamazoo was combined in 1917 into a new States Motor Car Company, capitalized at $6,000,000.  The people involved were John A. Pyl as president, James H. Johnson and B. R. Barber as vice-presidents.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bSBHAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22States+Motor+Car%22&pg=RA1-PA584 |title=The Automobile |date=1917 |publisher=Chilton Company |language=en}}</ref>

The new States car was a four-cylinder slightly larger than the Greyhound, priced at $895, {{Inflation|US|895|1918|fmt=eq}}.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2LgyAQAAMAAJ&q=%22states+model+b%22 |title=Cycle and Automobile Trade Journal |date=1918 |publisher=Chilton Company |language=en}}</ref>  E. J. Cook designed the car.   A [[Engineering:Straight-six engine|six-cylinder]] companion car was added for 1918, but that was the final  year for the States. The company was reported to be "permanently out of business” in the January 23rd, 1919 issue of Motor Age.<ref name=":0" />

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