De Luxe

The De Luxe was an American automobile manufactured in 1907 by the De Luxe Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan Country Life in America, February 1907, p. 456)]. The De Luxe was a high-priced vehicle for its day, retailing for around $5000. De Luxe took over the factory belonging to the Kirk Manufacturing Company, maker of the Yale automobile in Toledo, Ohio, in 1906. Soon after De Luxe moved to a brand new facility on a 15-acre (61,000 m2) site on Clark Street at Jefferson Avenue in Detroit. After producing fewer than 100 cars in 1908, the company was acquired by the E-M-F Company in 1909.[1] The factory was used by E-M-F to build the Flanders 20. E-M-F was acquired by Studebaker in 1910, who continued to produce automobiles in Detroit until its operations were moved to South Bend, Indiana, in the 1920s.

For the record label, see De Luxe Records.
"De-Luxe" redirects here. For the song by Lush, see Mad Love (EP).

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Notes
  1. Staff writers (July 27, 1909), "E-M-F buys De Luxe plant—Will build small car", The Automobile.

Bibliography
  • Bonsall, Thomas E., More Than They Promised: The Studebaker Story
  • Yanik, Anthony J. (2001), The E-M-F Company: the Story of Automotive Pioneers Barney Everitt, William Metzger, and Walter Flanders, Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), ISBN 0-7680-0716-X. (Google Books description page).


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