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Manufactured by Smith and Mabley of New York City, the first Simplex hit the streets in 1904. This impressive luxury touring car was powered by a 35 hp four-cylinder engine with a double chain drive chassis. Although sales were decent, the company went bankrupt in 1907, and it was soon taken over by a wealthy customer and textile manufacturer, Herman Broessel. Once again, the company prospered, garnering a reputation for producing very fast cars modeled after the finest of Europe, per Broessel's passion for racing.
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Born on an Ohio farm, Harry C. Stutz had only a grade school education when he went to work, while taking night classes in engineering. By 1897, he had designed and built his first automobile, cobbled out of old wooden buggy parts, and consequently dubbed, "Old Hickory." Stutz moved to Indianapolis to work for a string of automobile companies before landing at American, where in 1905, he won his first opportunity to design a production car, the American Underslung.
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At the turn of the century, automobiles were for the most part expensive status symbols, hand-built for the wealthy. In 1903, Henry Ford incorporated the Ford Motor Company, with the goal of building "a car for the great multitude."

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In 1909, the Roebling brothers, already renowned for their patriarch’s Brooklyn Bridge design, purchased a car manufacturing concern in New Jersey, changing its name to Mercer after the county where it was located.

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Manufactured in Syracuse, New York from 1902 through 1934, the Franklin was the only large production automobile ever made in America with an air-cooled engine. Herbert H. Franklin set up shop in 1893 to produce metal die castings, a term coined by Franklin himself. Five years later, engineer John Wilkinson, the grandson of the man who named Syracuse, developed a prototype for a four-cylinder air-cooled engine.

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One of the first modern cars.