James Cunningham, Son and Company was an American business based in Rochester, New York, initially manufacturing horse-drawn coaches, it eventually went on to develop and produce motorized automobiles from 1908 onward. The Cunningham company was a pioneer in automobile production credited with being one the world's first developers and manufacturers of automobiles and one of the first car-makers to produce an American V8 engine automobile, in 1916. The company also developed the M1 Armored Car (T24), tested by the Ordnance Department in 1931. For instrumentation use, James Cunningham, Son and Company made high-speed, very-long-life crossbar switches with physically small mechanical parts which permitted faster operation than telephone-type crossbar switches.