Porter Motor Company

{{Infobox automobile

| name = Porter Steam Stanhope

| image = Porter Steam car - Wide World Magazine - June 1900.png

| type = Steam car

| manufacturer = Porter Motor Company

| production = 1900–1901

| factory = Allston, Massachusetts

| designer = Major Dane Porter

| body_style = Runabout

| propulsion = steam engine

| caption = detail from Porter Stanhope advertisement in Wide World Magazine

}}

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

The Porter Motor Company was an early American steam automobile manufacturer based in Allston, Massachusetts.Clymer, Floyd. Treasury of Early American Automobiles, 1877-1925 (New York: Bonanza Books, 1950), p.13.{{Kimes-USCars3rd}}

Major Dane Porter (first name is Major) built the steam powered Porter Stanhope from 1900 to 1901 and advertised it as "The Only Perfect Automobile". Offices were located at 950 Tremont Building, Boston.

The Porter runabout featured an aluminium body and a weight of 550-lbs. It was capable of 25-mph, and was priced at $750, {{Inflation|US|750|1900|fmt=eq}}.