Stanhope (car)

In automotive use, a Stanhope is a car body style characterized by its single bench seat mounted at the center, folding cloth top, and a dashboard at the front.

The design was derived from the Stanhope horse-drawn carriage and could be considered a specific type of runabout.

Initial stanhope designs featured tiller steering,[2] either in the center or at the side.

Features of the car included a foot button to signal a bell (early version of a horn), hard rubber tires, wood trim, and eight forward and three reverse gears, and a top speed of about 50 mph (80 km/h).

This article about a brass-era automobile produced between 1905 and 1915 is a stub.