Kauffman Motor Vehicle Company

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Manufacturer	Kauffman Motor Vehicle Company
Production	1908-12

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

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.^[4] The Model C sold for US$1000,^[5] against the the Enger 40^[6] and Ford Model F at US$2000, the US$1750 FAL,^[7] US$1600 for the Oakland 40^[8] the Cole 30 and Colt Runabout at US$1500,^[9] the Yale tourer at US$1000, $700 for the Ford Model S $700, the high-volume Oldsmobile Runabout US$650,^[10] Western's Gale Model A was US$500,^[11] a Brush Runabout US$485,^[12] the Black could be as low as $375,^[13] and the Success hit the amazingly low US$250.^[14]

Advance became the Kauffman Motor Car Company in 1911, and folded the next year.^[15]

[edit] Notes

^ Kimes, Beverly Rae. The Standard Catalog of American Cars, 1805-1942 (Iola, Wisconsin: Krause Publications, 1989), p.761.
^ Kimes, p.761.
^ Kimes, p.652.
^ Kimes, p.761.
^ Kimes, p.761.
^ Clymer, Floyd. Treasury of Early American Automobiles, 1877-1925 (New York: Bonanza Books, 1950), p.104.
^ Clymer, p.104.
^ Clymer, p.84.
^ Clymer, pp.104 & 63.
^ Clymer, Floyd. Treasury of Early American Automobiles, 1877-1925 (New York: Bonanza Books, 1950), p.32.
^ Clymer, p.51.
^ Clymer, p.104.
^ Clymer, p.61.
^ Clymer, p.32.
^ Kimes, 761.

[edit] 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.