The McIntyre Company started as the W. H. Kiblinger Company in 1887, manufacturing buggies

Horse and buggy

A horse and buggy or horse and carriage refers to a light, simple, two-person carriage of the late 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries, drawn usually by one or sometimes by two horses...

. After W. H. Kiblinger's death in 1894, William H. McIntyre purchased the company and began experimenting with automobile

Automobile

An automobile, autocar, motor car or car is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transporting passengers, which also carries its own engine or motor...

s as early as 1897. In 1906 they began selling high-wheelers with tiller

Tiller

A tiller or till is a lever attached to a rudder post or rudder stock of a boat that provides leverage for the helmsman to turn the rudder...

 steering and one-cylinder engines

Single cylinder engine

A single-cylinder engine is a basic piston engine configuration of an internal combustion engine. It is often seen on motorcycles, auto rickshaws, motor scooters, mopeds, dirt bikes, go-karts, radio-controlled models and has many uses in portable tools and garden machinery...

 under the Kiblinger name. Prices were as low as $250.

Expansion

The company soon grew to occupy a total of five buildings around Auburn, Indiana

Auburn, Indiana

Auburn is a city in DeKalb County, Indiana, United States. The population was 13,086 at the 2010 census. Founded in 1836 by Wesley Park , the city is the county seat of DeKalb County. Auburn is also known as Home of the Classics.-Geography:...

 and employed 400 men. In December 1908, the name was changed to the W. H. McIntyre Co. and the manufacture of buggies and high-wheelers continued, but the line gradually changed to more modern car

Čar

Čar is a village in the municipality of Bujanovac, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the town has a population of 296 people.-References:...

s and truck

Truck

A truck or lorry is a motor vehicle designed to transport cargo. Trucks vary greatly in size, power, and configuration, with the smallest being mechanically similar to an automobile...

s. Trucks of up to 5-ton capacity were offered. McIntyre also had success with its IMP Cyclecar

Cyclecar

Cyclecars were small, generally inexpensive cars manufactured mainly between 1910 and the late 1920s.-General description:Cyclecars were propelled by single cylinder, V-twin or more rarely four cylinder engines, often air cooled. Sometimes these had been originally used in motorcycles and other...

 model.

Model overview, 1907–1915

Year	Model	Engine type / Cyl.	Power bhp (kW)	Wheelbase in	Cost
1907	Kiblinger	?	?	?	?
1908	McIntyre	?	?	?	?
1909	McIntyre	Straight 4 cyl.	30 bhp	112	$850
1913	IMP	?	?	?	?

Bankruptcy

In 1915, the McIntyre Company was forced into bankruptcy. The DeKalb Manufacturing Co. purchased the assets and assembled cars for another two years.