Kauffman Motor Vehicle Company

Kauffman Motor Vehicle Company was a pioneer brass era, American automobile company, built in Miamisburg, Ohio, from 1909 until 1912.[1]

Overview
ManufacturerKauffman Motor Vehicle Company
Production1906–12

The company was begun in 1906[2] as the Kauffman Buggy Company, providing bodies and chassis for Hatfield, located across town. In 1908, as Hatfield ran into financial difficulties,[3] the two firms merged, to form the Advance Motor Vehicle Company.

Under the Advance name, they introduced a four-passenger roadster with a refined version of Hartfield's four-cylinder on a 104 in (2642 mm) wheelbase.[2] The Model C sold for US$1000,[2] against the Enger 40[4] and Ford Model F at US$2000, the US$1750 FAL,[5] US$1600 for the Oakland 40[6] the Cole 30 and Colt Runabout at US$1500,[7] the Yale tourer at US$1000, $700 for the Ford Model S $700, the high-volume Oldsmobile Runabout US$650,[8] Western's Gale Model A was US$500,[9] a Brush Runabout US$485,[5] the Black from $375,[10] and the Success was US$250.[11]

Advance became the Kauffman Motor Car Company in 1911, and folded the next year.[12]

Notes
  1. Kimes, Beverly Rae. The Standard Catalog of American Cars, 1805–1942 (Iola, Wisconsin: Krause Publications, 1989), p.761.
  2. Kimes, p.761.
  3. Kimes, p.652.
  4. Clymer, Floyd. Treasury of Early American Automobiles, 1877–1925 (New York: Bonanza Books, 1950), p.104.
  5. Clymer, p.104.
  6. Clymer, p.84.
  7. Clymer, pp.104 & 63.
  8. Clymer, Floyd. Treasury of Early American Automobiles, 1877–1925 (New York: Bonanza Books, 1950), p.32.
  9. Clymer, p.51.
  10. Clymer, p.61.
  11. Clymer, p.32.
  12. Kimes, 761.

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. ISBN 0-87341-111-0.
  • Burgess-Wise, David (2000). The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Automobiles. BookSales Inc; Rev Upd edition (May 2000). p. 559. ISBN 0-7858-1106-0.

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