Anthony Molloy: Dr. Robert Donnelly's 1921 Overland Car

Anthony Molloy talks about Dr. Robert Donnelly's 1921 car from Mulranney, Co. Mayo at the vintage car rally based in Hotel Westport. A tour of the Curraun peninsula was part of the rally. 11.10.0215.
The first Overland motorcars were developed at the turn of the century by the Standard Wheel Company, but it was not until New York auto dealer John North Willys bought and reorganized the struggling company in 1907 that the Overland really came into its own. Production numbers grew consistently until production ceased in the 1930s, and Overland was relatively ahead of its time in using sliding-gear transmissions instead of the epicycle, or planetary, units used on cars like Ford’s Model T.