Kauffman Motor Vehicle Company

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Kauffman Motor Vehicle Company was a pioneer brass era American automobile company, built in Miamisburg, Ohio, from 1909 until 1912. [Kimes, Beverly Rae. "The Standard Catalog of American Cars, 1805-1942" (Iola, Wisconsin: Krause Publications, 1989), p.761.]

The company was begun in 1906 [Kimes, p.761.] as the Kauffman Buggy Company, providing bodies and chassis for Hatfield, located across town. In 1908, as Hatfield ran into financial difficulties, [Kimes, p.652.] 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. [Kimes, p.761.] The Model C sold for US$1000, [Kimes, p.761.] against the the Enger 40 [Clymer, Floyd. "Treasury of Early American Automobiles, 1877-1925" (New York: Bonanza Books, 1950), p.104.] and Ford Model F at US$2000, the US$1750 FAL, [Clymer, p.104.] US$1600 for the Oakland 40 [Clymer, p.84.] the Cole 30 and Colt Runabout at US$1500, [Clymer, pp.104 & 63.] the Yale tourer at US$1000, $700 for the Ford Model S $700, the high-volume Oldsmobile Runabout US$650, [Clymer, Floyd. "Treasury of Early American Automobiles, 1877-1925" (New York: Bonanza Books, 1950), p.32.] Western's Gale Model A was US$500, [Clymer, p.51.] a Brush Runabout US$485, [Clymer, p.104.] the Black could be as low as $375, [Clymer, p.61.] and the Success hit the amazingly low US$250. [Clymer, p.32.]

Advance became the Kauffman Motor Car Company in 1911, and folded the next year. [Kimes, 761.]

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*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.

ee also

*List of automobile manufacturers
*List of defunct automobile manufacturers