Abstract: A permanent magnet starting motor equipped with reduction gears has a stator frame of a D.C. motor, which constitutes the starting motor, made of a tubular member which has a bottom portion. A rotary shaft of an armature is inserted from within the D.C. motor into a penetrating hole provided in the bottom portion of the tubular member, in a manner to protrude beyond the penetrating hole. A sliding-contact engagement portion holds the bottom portion of the stator frame and the rotary shaft of the armature in engagement in an axial direction, and that the reduction gears which are driven by the rotary shaft of the armature are installed in the bottom portion.