Success Automobile Manufacturing Company

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Manufacturer Success Automobile Manufacturing Company
Production 1906
Body style(s) high wheeler buggy
Transmission(s) chain drive

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 amazingly low US$250,[2] when the Black could be as low as $375,[3] Gale's Model A was US$500,[4] the high-volume Oldsmobile Runabout went for US$650,[5] and the Ford "Doctor's Car" was US$850.[6]

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).[7]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Clymer, Floyd. Treasury of Early American Automobiles, 1877-1925 (New York: Bonanza Books, 1950), p.32.
  2. ^ Clymer, p.32.
  3. ^ Clymer, p.61.
  4. ^ Clymer, p.51.
  5. ^ Clymer, p.32.
  6. ^ Clymer, p.37.
  7. ^ Clymer, p.32.

[edit] Sources

  • Clymer, Floyd. Treasury of Early American Automobiles, 1877-1925 (New York: Bonanza Books, 1950), p.32.</ref>ork: Bonanza Books, 1950).

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