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Latest archived mark · 1900

Auburn

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Latest archived mark · 1909

Abbott-Detroit

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What we compare	Auburn	Abbott-Detroit
Country in archive	United States	United States
Founded	1903	1909
Founder	Frank Eckhart and Morris Eckhart	Abbott Motor Company
Headquarters	Auburn, Indiana, United States	Detroit, Michigan, United States
Name origin	The company took its name from its home city, Auburn, Indiana, which was founded in 1836 by Wesley Park. Wikipedia says the community's name likely came from Oliver Goldsmith's poem "The Deserted Village," which begins "Sweet Auburn! Loveliest village of the plain." No source ties the automaker's badge to any part of that poem beyond the shared place name.	The name pairs Abbott, the name of the Abbott Motor Company, with Detroit, the city where the cars were built. The sources consulted do not say who Abbott was, so the exact origin of the surname is not confirmed here. Naming a car after both a maker and a home city was common among early automobile builders.
Selected models	Auburn 8-88, Auburn Speedster, Auburn Twelve 12-160, Auburn 851/852 Speedster	Fore Door Roadster, Battleship Roadster, Model F, Model L, Model K
Earliest archived brand logo	—	1909
Latest archived logo	1900	1909
Archived logo assets	1	1

Logo dates are archive labels; symbols dated before a brand's founding are excluded from its earliest-logo date. Asset counts include all archived variants, not just redesigns. A dash means a value is unavailable.

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