May 24, 2013 - REO Motor Car Company REO Motor Car Company Former type Automobile Manufacturing Industry Automotive Founded 1905 Founders Ransom E. Olds Defunct 1975 Headquarters Lansing, Michigan 1906 REO Model B Runabout in 2005 The REO Motor Car Company was a Lansing, Michigan based company that produced automobiles and trucks from 1905 to 1975. At one point…