R. H. Long Motors Company

The R. H. Long Motors Company was a Framingham, Massachusetts-based automobile manufacturer that operated from 1922 to 1926.^[1] They produced the Bay State model automobile, which used a Continental Motors Company six-cylinder engine.^[2]

The company was founded by Richard H. Long, a shoe manufacturer from Framingham. During World War I, Long's factory switched to manufacturing war supplies, including high-grade automobile bodies. In 1922, R. H. Long Motors Company began production of the Bay State.^[3]

The Bay State was a successful small-production car on a 121-inch wheelbase that featured a Continental six-cylinder engine and proven standard components. A former Winton Motor Carriage Company designed the car, which perhaps explains the similarity of the radiator shape. A complete line-up of models was produced, with open and closed models, including a sports phaeton. In its three or four years of production, some 2500 units of the Bay State were sold for prices ranging from $1,800 to $2,850.^[4]

Although R. H. Long Motors ceased car production in 1926, the Long Automotive Group, an automobile dealership founded in 1927, was started from the remains of the business.^[1] Long Automotive still exists today in Southborough, Massachusetts (Long Cadillac), the world's oldest continually-owned Cadillac dealership, and Webster, Massachusetts (Long Subaru).

Two remaining Bay State cars, a 1925 roadster and a 1924 sedan Model One, are known to exist.^[5][6]