• Rare early survivor of a once prominent American make • Formerly part of the Imperial Palace Hotel Collection in Las Vegas, Nevada • Acquired for the Bühner Collection in 2001 • Past participant in the London-Brighton Veteran Car Run 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...