[1] The Lion Motor Car Company was formed to produce the engine developed for the Gyroscope automobile.

This plan was abandoned and the Lion was a four-cylinder 40 hp engine model called the Forty.

A fire on June 2, 1912, destroyed the factory and 150 cars, including a prototype model Thirty.

The city of Adrian and citizens raised $8,000 to help, but the Lion Motor Car Company was under-insured and went into receivership by October.

[2]Two Lion examples are known to be extant; one in a museum in Adrian, Michigan and another in Australia.