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Origins
Peerless of Cleveland stood with Packard and Pierce-Arrow as one of America's 'Three Ps', the aristocracy of the brass era, and its cars of the early 1910s show why. The company built big, exquisitely finished machines — pioneering the enclosed limousine body among other refinements — for buyers to whom price was genuinely no object. Everything was done the expensive way: cast in-house, machined generously, trimmed by craftsmen. The marque's motto, 'All that the name implies', was for once fair advertising. Peerless never matched Packard's commercial instincts, and after the First World War it drifted downmarket in search of volume that never quite came. But in this era the name carried full weight: a Peerless outside your door announced arrival as surely as anything built in America.
The Battle of the Somme, July-November 1916, Q 937 · Unknown authorUnknown author · Public domain
