Adams-Farwell cars cost between $2,500 and $4,000 at a time when the Model T, introduced and designed by Henry Ford in 1908, was about $700. Despite the cost, the Adams-Farwell tied with the Stoddard-Dayton as the most popular car in a survey done in 1910.

ADAMS-FARWELL AUTOMOBILES were using Farwell's motor in 1903 when one of the cars was shown at an automobile show in Chicago. M. M. Sequin of Paris saw the car and after returning to France built the gnome engine following the design.

Under Adams' and Fay Oliver FARWELL supervision, ADAMS-FARWELL AUTOMOBILES were manufactured in Dubuque. The company made the first sedan in 1905 and for the next eleven years was one of the major automobile manufacturers in the United States.

Hired around 1885 by Eugene ADAMS of the ADAMS COMPANY (Encyclopedia Dubuque), Farwell led efforts in Dubuque to develop ADAMS-FARWELL AUTOMOBILES. (1) He perfected the air-cooled engine used in the car, an engine later adapted by …

An employee of ADAMS COMPANY (Encyclopedia Dubuque) since the age of fourteen, Pickup drove one of the company's cars in an endurance contest between Chicago, Illinois and Minneapolis, Minnesota placing third. (1)

Among the cars shown were five manufactured in Iowa. The principle attraction was a 1906 Adams-Farwell Model 6-A, the only one known to exist. The Club continued hosting car shows for forty years.

The 1904 Adams-Farwell Model Five was powered by a twenty horsepower three-cylinder rotary engine. Acclaim by this time was becoming widespread. Exhibitors at the Chicago Auto Show in February 1905 praised the car for its innovations.

Under Adams' and Fay Oliver FARWELL supervision, ADAMS-FARWELL AUTOMOBILES were manufactured in Dubuque. The company made the first sedan in 1905 and for the next eleven years was one of the major automobile manufacturers in the United States.

This was despite the fact that his friend and competitor Thomas CONNOLLY was by 1903 in the business of manufacturing chassis for ADAMS-FARWELL AUTOMOBILES. It may have been in a bit of pique that Cooper advertised "Automobile Top" buggies in 1907.

AUTOMOBILES (first). As late as 1905 local residents believed the hills of Dubuque would prove an insurmountable obstacle to automobiles. (1) It was true that ADAMS COMPANY (Encyclopedia Dubuque) was manufacturing automobiles, but these were being sold to people in the eastern United States. Charles Gordon, a builder of internal combustion ...