Overland Automobile Company was an American automobile manufacturer based in Toledo, Ohio, and the founding company of Willys-Overland. It was one of the earliest mass producers of automobiles in the United States. The company originated as the Overland Automobile department in Terre Haute, Indiana, founded by Claude E. Cox after Charles Minshall of the Standard Wheel Company, a major supplier of wheels to the carriage industry, decided to expand into…