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The Curved Dash Oldsmobile is credited as the first high-volume mass-produced automobile
Automobile

An automobile or motor car is a wheeled motor vehicle for transportation passengers, which also carries its own car engine or motor. Most definitions of the term specify that automobiles are designed to run primarily on roads, to have seating for one to eight people, to typically have four wheels, and to be constructed principally f...
. It was introduced by the Oldsmobile
Oldsmobile

Oldsmobile was a brand name of automobile produced for most of its existence by General Motors. It was founded by Ransom E. Olds in 1897. In its 107-year history, it produced 35.2 million cars, including at least 14 million built at its Lansing, Michigan factory....
 company in 1901 and produced through 1907. 425 examples were produced the first year, 2500 in 1902, with over 19000 built in all.

It was a runabout
Runabout (car)

Runabouts were a popular car body style at the beginning of the 20th Century. They were small, inexpensive, open cars. Most runabouts had just a single row of seats, providing seating for two passengers....
 model, could seat two passengers, and sold for US $650 ($16,000 in 2007).






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The Curved Dash Oldsmobile is credited as the first high-volume mass-produced automobile
Automobile

An automobile or motor car is a wheeled motor vehicle for transportation passengers, which also carries its own car engine or motor. Most definitions of the term specify that automobiles are designed to run primarily on roads, to have seating for one to eight people, to typically have four wheels, and to be constructed principally f...
. It was introduced by the Oldsmobile
Oldsmobile

Oldsmobile was a brand name of automobile produced for most of its existence by General Motors. It was founded by Ransom E. Olds in 1897. In its 107-year history, it produced 35.2 million cars, including at least 14 million built at its Lansing, Michigan factory....
 company in 1901 and produced through 1907. 425 examples were produced the first year, 2500 in 1902, with over 19000 built in all.

It was a runabout
Runabout (car)

Runabouts were a popular car body style at the beginning of the 20th Century. They were small, inexpensive, open cars. Most runabouts had just a single row of seats, providing seating for two passengers....
 model, could seat two passengers, and sold for US $650 ($16,000 in 2007). While competitive, due to high volume, and below the Ford US $850 ($20,100 in 2007) "Doctor's Car", Western
Western Tool Works (automobile company)

Western Tool Works was a pioneering brass era automobile manufacurer in Galesburg, Illinois.Western in 1905 produced the Gale Model A, an open roadster, for sale at United States dollar500, which was less than high-volume Oldsmobile Oldsmobile Curved Dash, at US$650, the Ford "Doctor's Car" at US$850, or the Holsman Automobile Company...
 in 1905 produced the Gale Model A, an open roadster, for sale at US $500 ($12,300 in 2007), the Black
Black Motor Company

The Black was a brass era United States automobile, built at 124 East Ohio Street, Chicago, Illinois, in 1906.It was a high wheeler buggy priced at a surprisingly low United States dollar375-$450, when Western Tool Works 's Model A was US$500, the high-volume Oldsmobile Oldsmobile Curved Dash went for US$650, and the Ford "Doctor's Car" was...
 went as low as $375 ($9,230 in 2007), and the Success
Success Automobile Manufacturing Company

Success was a brass era United States automobile, built at 532 De Ballviere Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri, in 1906.It was a high wheeler buggy priced at an exceedingly low United States dollar250....
 hit the amazingly low US $250 ($6,150 in 2007).

The flat-mounted water-cooled single-cylinder engine, situated at the center of the car, produced 4 hp (3 kW), relying on a brass gravity-feed carburetor
Carburetor

A carburetor or carburettor , is a device that blends Earth's atmosphere and fuel for an internal combustion engine. It was invented by Karl Benz before 1885 and patented in 1886....
. The transmission was a semi-automatic design with two forward speeds and one reverse. The low speed forward and reverse gear system are a planetary type (epicyclic). The car weighed 850 lb (386 kg) and used Concord springs.

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Sources

  • Clymer, Floyd. Treasury of Early American Automobiles, 1877-1925 (New York: Bonanza Books, 1950).
  • Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly (January, 1904)


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