Kauffman Motor Vehicle Company was a pioneer brass era, American

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company, built in Miamisburg,

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, from 1909 until 1912.

History

The company was begun in 1906Kimes, p.761. as the Kauffman Buggy Company, providing bodies and chassis for Hatfield, 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 with a refined version of Hartfield's four-cylinder on a 104 in (2642 mm) wheelbase. The Model C sold for US$1000, 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. . *{{Cite book , last = Burgess-Wise , first = David , authorlink = David Burgess-Wise , title = The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Automobiles , publisher = BookSales Inc; Rev Upd edition (May 2000) , pages = 559 , isbn = 0-7858-1106-0, year = 2000

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