Re: THE 'BRUSH' AUTOMOBILE
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THE 'BRUSH' AUTOMOBILE
Penny Gardner 6/18/05
http://info.detnews.com/history/story/index.cfm?id=16&category=businesshttp://info.detnews.com/history/story/index.cfm?id=16&category=business
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The 1909 Brush was a sprightly little runabout.
Brush (1906-12): Alanson Partridge Brush established the Brush Runabout Co. in November, 1906. The design of the Brush was very simple and stayed that way for the life of the marque. There was no transmission, but a variable speed clutch that gave eight forward speeds and one reverse. At high speed it became simply a friction clutch.
The Brush runabout was a bargain at $500 and production climbed from 500 in 1907 to 10,000 in 1910, equaling the output of Benjamin Briscoe's Maxwell-Briscoe Company, with whom Brush was associated. Both companies were joined that year into the United States Motor consolidation. U. S. Motors collapsed in 1912, Brush was discontinued in 1913.
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Penny Gardner 8/26/05
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