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E.M.F. c.1910

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The E-M-F Company was an early American automobile manufacturer that produced automobiles from 1909 to 1912. The name E-M-F was gleaned from the initials of the three company founders: Barney Everitt (a custom auto-body builder from Detroit), William Metzger (formerly of Cadillac), and Walter Flanders (who had served as Henry Ford's production manager

 

E-M-F vehicles were known in their time for their notoriously bad build quality. Detractors soon began stating the E-M-F name stood for "Every Morning Fix-it", "Every Mechanical Fault", and "Every Miss Fire". Internal fighting between the partners did nothing to help solve the problems.

 

In 1913, the E-M-F name was replaced by Studebaker.

 

Western Development Museum,

Moose Jaw, Province of Saskatchewan

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Uploaded on December 13, 2016
Taken on August 20, 2013