Kauffman Motor Vehicle Company was a pioneer brass era American

United States

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 automobile

Automobile

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 company, built in Miamisburg

Miamisburg, Ohio

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, Ohio

Ohio

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, from 1909 until 1912.

The company was begun in 1906 as the Kauffman Buggy Company, providing bodies and chassis for Hatfield

Hatfield Motor Vehicle Company

Hatfield Motor Vehicle Company was a pioneer brass era American automobile company, built in Miamisburg, Ohio, in 1907 and 1908.The company was incorporated in 1906 by Charles B. Hatfield, Sr. and Jr., in Cortland, New York...

, located across town. In 1908, as Hatfield ran into financial difficulties, the two firms merged, to form the Advance Motor Vehicle Company.

Under the Advance name, they introduced a four-passenger roadster

Roadster

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 with a refined version of Hartfield's four-cylinder on a 104 in (2642 mm) wheelbase. The Model C sold for US$1000, against the Enger 40 and Ford

Ford Motor Company

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 Model F

Ford Model F

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 at US$2000, the US$1750 FAL, US$1600 for the Oakland 40 the Cole 30 and Colt Runabout at US$1500, the Yale

Kirk Manufacturing Company (automobile company)

Kirk Manufacturing Company was a pioneer brass era American automobile company, built at 958 Oakwood Avenue, Toledo, Ohio, from 1902 until 1905....

 tourer

Touring car

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 at US$1000, $700 for the Ford Model S $700, the high-volume Oldsmobile

Oldsmobile

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 Runabout

Oldsmobile Curved Dash

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 US$650, Western

Western Tool Works (automobile company)

Western Tool Works was a pioneering brass era automobile manufacturer in Galesburg, Illinois.Western in 1905 produced the Gale Model A, an open roadster, for sale at US$500, which was less than high-volume Oldsmobile Runabout, at US$650, the Ford "Doctor's Car" at US$850, or the Holsman high...

's Gale Model A was US$500, a Brush Runabout

Brush Motor Car Company

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 US$485, the Black

Black Motor Company

The Black was a brass era United States automobile, built at 124 East Ohio Street, Chicago, Illinois, in 1906.It was a high wheeler buggy priced at a surprisingly low US$375-$450, when Gale's Model A was US$500, the high-volume Oldsmobile Runabout went for US$650, and the Ford "Doctor's Car" was...

 could be as low as $375, and the Success

Success Automobile Manufacturing Company

Success was a brass era United States automobile, built at 532 De Ballviere Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri, in 1906.It was a high wheeler buggy priced at an exceedingly low US$250...

hit the amazingly low US$250.

Advance became the Kauffman Motor Car Company in 1911, and folded the next year.

Sources

• Clymer, Floyd. Treasury of Early American Automobiles, 1877-1925. New York: Bonanza Books, 1950.
• Kimes, Beverly Rae. The Standard Catalog of American Cars, 1805-1942. Iola, Wisconsin: Krause Publications, 1989. ISBN0-87341-111-0.