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The Success Automobile Manufacturing Company was a brass era United States automobile manufacturer, located at 532 De Ballviere Avenue,〔Clymer, Floyd. ''Treasury of Early American Automobiles, 1877-1925'' (New York: Bonanza Books, 1950), p.32.〕 St. Louis, Missouri, in 1906. Business concentrated on building high wheeler automobiles, mainly buggies. == The company == The Success Automobile Manufacturing Company was founded in 1906 by ''John C. Higdon'', who had built his first car in 1896; back then for experimental purposes only. Production started with a - even for highwheelers - exceedingly low US$250.〔Clymer, p.32.〕 Later models became slightly more complex, and expensive. While Success always stayed with highwheelers, the got a twin cylinder engine in 1908 (singles being dropped at the end of that year), built a commercial car in 1908 only, and offered several new models in 1909, among them their only four-cylinder car. Two- and four cylinder engines were available with water or air cooling. While Higdon was open to let people copy his construction back in 1896, and even publicly invited to do so, he became much more aware of patents and royalties when building cars on a commercial schedule. So, he took several competitors to court on this matter; among them the Economy Motor Buggy Company in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and the W. H. Kiblinger Company in Auburn, Indiana (a predecessor of the Auburn Automobile Company). Although, the Success Automobile Manufacturing Company folded before the end of this litigations. It is estimated, that Success built ca. 600 vehicles. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Success Automobile Manufacturing Company」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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