Success Automobile Manufacturing Company
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Success was a brass era United States automobile, built at 532 De Ballviere Avenue,[1] St. Louis, Missouri, in 1906.
It was a high wheeler buggy priced at an exceedingly low US$250.[2] By comparison, the Black started at $375,[3] Gale's Model A was US$500,[4] the high-volume Oldsmobile Runabout went for US$650,[2] and the Ford "Doctor's Car" was US$850.[5]
The Success featured a two-cylinder gasoline engine, steel tires (rubber was available, for US$25 extra), and chain drive. It claimed speeds of 4-18 mph (6.5-29 km/h) and mileage of 100mpg (4.25 l/100km).[2]
[edit] See also
- ^ Clymer, Floyd. Treasury of Early American Automobiles, 1877-1925 (New York: Bonanza Books, 1950), p.32.
- ^ a b c Clymer, p.32.
- ^ Clymer, p.61.
- ^ Clymer, p.51.
- ^ Clymer, p.37.
[edit] References
- Clymer, Floyd. Treasury of Early American Automobiles, 1877-1925 (New York: Bonanza Books, 1950).
