thumb| The very first Overland from 1903 was the Model 13 with 5 HP from a single-cylinder engine with 552 cc, featuring a bore of 88.9 mm and a stroke of 88.9 mm.
thumb|1910 Overland Model 42 Touring Car
The Overland Automobile Company was an American automobile manufacturer in Toledo, Ohio. It was the founding company of Willys-Overland and one of the earliest mass producers of automobiles.
History
The Overland Automobile department was founded in Terre Haute, Indiana, by Claude E. Cox, when Charles Minshall of Standard Wheel Company decided to expand into automobile manufacturing. Standard Wheel were major suppliers of wheels to the carriage industry. Cox, a recent graduate of Rose Polytechnic Institute, developed a gasoline runabout in 1903.