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Car of the Day: February 27, 2016; High Speed '07 S & M Simplex Limousine
Topic Started: Feb 27 2016, 03:55 AM (636 Views)
Dean-o-mite
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Today's car of the day is High Speed's 1907 S & M Simplex Limousine.


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The Smith and Mabley Manufacturing Co. of New York City was founded by Carleton Raymond Mabley (1878-1963) and his brother-in-law Albert Proctor Smith to import European cars for sale in America. They built their first car in 1904, which was called the S&M Simplex, largely from imported Mercedes parts. The company went bankrupt in 1906 and in 1907 the firm's assets were absorbed into the Simplex Automobile Co. The firm became Crane-Simplex after purchase of the Crane Motor Car Company of Bayonne, New Jersey, which had been founded by Henry Middleton Crane, in 1915. The 1904 Smith and Mabley was a touring car model. Equipped with a tonneau, it could seat 5 passengers and sold for US$5500. The vertically mounted water-cooled straight-4, at the front of the car, produced 18 hp. A 4-speed transmission was fitted. The wood and angle iron-framed car weighed 1200 lb (544 kg). The car used a honeycomb radiator with a fan.



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For more information and pictures of the real car please visit: S & M Simplex


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Back when I was a teenager, my grandparents gave me a set of three High Speed cars from the early 1900's, which were a promotional gift for sharing a Reader's Digest subscription. The S & M Simplex model was already missing its steering wheel when the cars were gifted to me, and one of these days I need to go through the spare parts box and source a replacement steering wheel. High Speed also had a later Simplex model in their casting bank (a 1912 Simplex, I believe), but outside of High Speed, I don't recall having any other S & M Simplex or Simplex models.


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In addition to the small amount of information found on Wikipedia, there is a wealth of information on the company and founders' history at this website (a clickable link): http://www.coachbuilt.com/bui/s/smith_mabley/smith_mabley2.html. The article has so much information, I couldn't pick and choose what to include here, and instead decided it was better to just give the link, for those interested.


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My grandparents had saved the advertising page, and provided it along with the cars:
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zzziippyyy
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Thanks for that link, always nice to learn more about the Hobby.
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cody6268
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I have close to a dozen of these which consist of ones my grandmother got from Reader's Digest that I played with (and later got amalgamated into my collection) and a few I've found later at the flea market. But, I don't have this one. Other than the wheels, I like it, even though all of the High Speed models are a tad on the crude side.
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pjedsel
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:toy: Oh my goodness...a vintage High Speed car that I was not aware of. I have most of their little antique cars in my collection. Yes, they are on the crude side but few of them have been made by others in small scale so a neat part of my collection. Not sure why most diecast manufacturers have skipped over this era of cars in 1/64th/3 inch. This little S&M Simplex Limousine is a nice one and one I will have to keep an eye out for. Thanks for sharing this one with us Dean. :thumbup:
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Hobie-wan
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Indeed, I hadn't seen that one while coming across the others. Also nice that it's one of the earlier ones with the nice wheels and rubber tires.
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