Rainier was an American automobile manufacturer active in the early twentieth century, first based in Flushing, New York, from 1905 to 1907, and subsequently in Saginaw, Michigan, from 1907 to 1911. The company was founded by John T. Rainier, who had previously organized the Vehicle Equipment Co. of Brooklyn, a maker of electric trucks and sightseeing buses that also produced a small number of cars under the V.E.C. name. In…