International Automobile League was a brass era American

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 automobile

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 company.

Founded in Buffalo

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, New York

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, in summer 1908 with a capitalization

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 of US$

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50,000, International's officers were A. C. Bidwell and C. H. Bowe.

In summer 1910, it was reorganized as the International Automobile League Tire and Rubber Company, capitalized at one million dollars, again by Bidwell and Bowe.

Like many early American automobile companies, it is doubtful International actually built any cars.

Source

• Kimes, Beverly Rae. The Standard Catalog of American Cars, 1805-1942. Iola, Wisconsin: Krause Publications, 1989. ISBN0-87341-111-0.