In 1922 locomotive plant to resume locomotive and locomobile production. He bought a Locomobile, the finest car of that time. The only problems were the patents which still belonged to Locomobile. Rollin H. White patented his new design and offered it to, among others, Locomobile. Before 1906, he was a manager at Locomobile Company of America in Bridgeport, Connecticut. In 1913 he went to Locomobile as assistant research engineer. The 1908 Locomobile 40 Runabout was a two-seater and sold for $4,750 (). Barber also had an interest in automobile production, forming the Locomobile Company in 1898. Riker was hired afterwards by Locomobile for their ICE development. Other marques with showrooms there that have since dissolved include Hudson, Locomobile, Marmon, and Pierce-Arrow. In 1890-1894 the first Russian locomobile factory was built. In 1929, Locomobile went out of production. Locomobile later transitioned into selling internal-combustion automobiles. About 1898, Thomas H. White purchased a Locomobile steam car and found its boiler unreliable. Papa LaBas from Ishmael Reed's 1972 novel "Mumbo Jumbo" drives a Locomobile.