Bates (automobile)

[1][2] Bates automobile manufacturing was started up in an old Armory building in Lansing, on south Capitol Street.

[3] The company started out producing brass-era single-cylinder runabouts; and later produced a few two-seater and four-seater cars with four-cylinders.

The four-seater touring cars produced cost US$2,000.

[2] The company's slogan was "Buy a Bates and Keep Your Dates.

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