That is a remarkably complete looking list. As a spot check I noticed it included:
Porter (1919)
I doubt that the producers of “My Mother the Car” realized there really WAS a Porter automobile, defunct before 1928. I ran across that obscure fact somewhere else, and poked around a bit for its history. I couldn’t find much. It seems to have been a “dream car” project by Finley Robertson Porter, who was the designer of the Mercer Raceabout. It apparently went nowhere because he wound up designing a vehicle so expensive that very few people could afford one. He wasn’t the only car maker of that era to fail for that reason.
The revived Deusenberg I heard of was based on a Ford Crown Victoria/ Mercury Grand Marquis with a Ray Falconer V-12 engine; basically, a Chevy 350 v8 with four extra cylinders.
Of course the British cheated by wrapping up all their big home grown manufacturers in big companies that went defunct altogether
I’d say MG Rover but I’m not sure of the status of the company hasn’t it been given a last minute lifeline by the Nanjing Automobile Group? Regardless of this, there are some brand names whose rights are under scrutiny like Austin-Healey, owned by Rover, BMW or the Healey family?
Interestingly enough, there is an article in this month’s Trains magazine about the American Locomotive Company, Alco, building automobiles. One employee of some note was none other than Walter P. Chrysler.
In the '60’s, Alco became a subsidiary of Studebaker. I believe their last locomotives were built in about '69 or so.
