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The Haynes-Apperson marque originated in 1893 when Elwood P Haynes, a senior employee of the Indiana Natural Gas and Oil Company, visited the Riverside Machine Works in Kokomo, Indiana to ask its proprietors, the Apperson brothers, for assistance in building an automobile. Haynes would later (falsely) claim that his was America's first automobile. For the next few years Messrs Haynes and Apperson continued with their existing employment, and it was not until 1898 that the Haynes-Apperson Automobile Company was formed. Automobiles of 7/8hp with a choice of two, four or six seats were soon leaving the Riverside Machine Works. Demand was strong right from the outset and the factory was soon running 24 hours a day. Haynes-Apperson cars were soon setting new long-distance records, their achievements somewhat embellished by Haynes. According to the Standard Catalog of American Cars: "There was no doubt, however, that the Haynes-Apperson was a fine automobile; it won a blue ribbon in the Long Island Endurance Run and two first prizes in the New York-Rochester Endurance Contest in 1901." Haynes and the Appersons parted company that year, the latter to build their own Apperson automobile while Haynes continued with Haynes-Apperson before dropping the name of his erstwhile collaborators in 1905.
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