Columbia Motors

{{short description|Defunct American motor vehicle manufacturer}}

{{about|the automobile manufacturer from 1916 to 1924|the automobile brand from 1899 to 1910|Columbia (automobile brand)}}

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Columbia Motors was a Detroit, Michigan, United States based automobile manufacturer that produced automobiles from 1916 to 1924.

Columbia Motors was incorporated in 1916, with John George Bayerline as company president and William E. Metzger as vice-president.{{cite journal |journal=Motor West |title=Officials of the Columbia Motors Co. of Detroit, Makers of the Columbia Six |date=September 15, 1917 |volume=XXVII |issue=11 |page=24 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PqYAAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA6-PA24 |accessdate=October 28, 2013}} Bayerline was the former president and general manager of the King Motor Car Company{{cite journal |journal=Michigan Manufacturer Financial Record |title=Artemas Ward, Jr., Now Heads King Motor Car |date=June 19, 1915 |volume=15 |issue=25 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nosfAQAAMAAJ&dq=Michigan%20Manufacturer%20and%20Financial%20Record%20volume%2015&pg=PT854 |accessdate=October 28, 2013}} and former general manager and founder of the Warren Motor Car Company.{{cite journal |journal=The Automobile|title=Detroit's Latest Warren-Detroit |date=September 23, 1909 |volume=21 |issue=13 |page=539}} Prior to founding Columbia, Metzger was a founder of the E-M-F Company which was later purchased by the Studebaker Corporation.

Columbia Motors produced two models powered by Continental six-cylinder engines including the popular Columbia Six. In 1916, Columbia bought Argo Electric. A 1916 news item in the journal Horseless Age presents a "Columbia Touring Car".{{Citation |author=Editorial staff |date=April 1, 1916 |title=The new Columbia Touring Car |journal=Horseless Age |volume=37 |issue=7 |page=279 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EVTmAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA279 |postscript=.}} In 1923, Columbia acquired Liberty Motor Car.