Speedwell Motor Car Co. was an automobile manufacturer based in Dayton, Ohio. Its cars were large, conventional tourers initially designed by Gilbert Loomis, who had previously built cars under his own name in Westfield, Massachusetts, between 1901 and 1904. The earliest Speedwell models were powered by Rutenber engines, available as a 40 hp four-cylinder or a 60 hp six-cylinder unit, mounted on wheelbases of 116 inches (2,944 mm) and 132…