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Encyclopedia > Argo (automobile)

The Argo was a short-lived United States automobile manufactured in Jackson, Michigan between 1915 and 1916. An attempt to rival Ford at producing a "motor car for the millions", the 1916 model sold for $405 in two-seater form. The company originally made the four-cylinder "Motorvique" cyclecar bsaed on the French_built (by the Briscoes) Ajax.




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Although two early automobiles were exhibited at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893—the prototype Morrison electric and a gasoline-powered car from Germany—horseless carriages didn't receive much notoriety until the Chicago Times-Herald offered $5,000 in prizes to the winner of a round-trip race between Chicago and Evanston two years later.
A modest 12 automobiles were exhibited in a donated Studebaker Company wagon and buggy showroom on South Wabash Avenue.
A motorized farm buggy known generically as the “highwheeler” because of its wagon-style wheels was developed in Chicago, which became the center of manufacture of that type of car between about 1903 and 1912, when the Model T Ford drove it from the market.
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