The Staver was an American

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 automobile

Automobile

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 manufactured at 76th and Wallace Streets in Chicago, Illinois,Clymer, Floyd. Treasury of Early American Automobiles, 1877-1925 (New York: Bonanza Books, 1950), p.104. by the Staver Carriage Company from 1907 until 1914. It was also known as the Staver Chicago or Staver-Chicago.

The company's initial offerings were 18/20hp high wheeler

High Wheeler

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s, but after two years, production was turned over to conventional four-cylinder models, which came in torpedo

Torpedo (car)

The torpedo body style was a type of automobile body used from the early twentieth century until the mid-1930s, and which fell quickly into disuse by the Second World War....

 or touring

Touring car

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 bodywork

Coachwork

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.

For 1911, Staver offered a tourer at US$

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1600 and a five-seat open torpedo at US$1850. By contrast, the Brush Runabout

Brush Motor Car Company

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 was at US$485, the high-volume Oldsmobile

Oldsmobile

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 Runabout

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 went for US$650,Clymer, p.32. the Colt Runabout and Cole 30 at US$1500,Clymer, p.63. the Oakland 40 US$1600,Clymer, p.84. an FAL for US$1750, an Enger 40 US$2000, and the American

American Motor Car Company

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's base model was US$4250.Clymer, p.91.

1914's Staver 65 had a 452in³ (7413 cc) monobloc

Monobloc engine

A monobloc or en bloc engine is an internal-combustion piston engine where some of the major components: cylinder head, cylinder block, or crankcase are formed, usually by casting, as a single integral unit, rather than being assembled later...

six.

Sources

• David Burgess Wise, The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Automobiles.
• Clymer, Floyd. Treasury of Early American Automobiles, 1877-1925. New York: Bonanza Books, 1950.