Continental Motors Company

Continental Motors Company was a major American manufacturer of internal combustion engines, best known as an independent supplier of engines for automobiles, tractors, trucks, as well as for use with stationary equipment such as pumps, generators, and industrial machinery drives. They produced engines in the United States from 1905 through the 1960s. At its peak in the 1910s and 1920s, the company supplied engines to nearly 100 different automobile marques and powered an estimated three million cars.

Continental Motors also produced automobiles in 1932 and 1933 under the name Continental Automobile Company.

The Continental Aircraft Engine Company was formed in 1929 to develop and produce its aircraft engines, and would become the core business of the successor company, Continental Motors, Inc..

In 1965, Ryan Aeronautical Company took over as a majority shareholder of Continental Motors and its subsidiary aircraft engine company. Later in 1969, Teledyne bought out Ryan Aeronautical as majority shareholder to merge. This merger became Teledyne Continental Motors (TCM).