runabout at $775. The Coupé was also slightly more expensive at $1,000. The wheelbase was increased to in 1912. Flanders cars were also built in Canada by the E-M-F Company of Canada LTD in Walkerville, Ontario. In 1912, however, Studebaker made the next logical step and took over E-M-F and Flanders completely, selling both now as Studebakers. A total of 31,514 cars were built in its three-year existence. Flanders Model "50-Six" Earlier E-M-F partners Bernard F. Everitt and William Metzger had also developed a new car. When they left E-M-F in 1909, they built a car very similar to the model "30" Everitt and added, with the model "Six-48", a much bigger car with a starter device that worked with pressured air. There were two body styles, a 3-passenger roadster at $2,200 and a touring car for 7 passengers at $2,250. When Flanders rejoined his old companions, a reorganisation took place during which the company's name changed from Metzger Company to Everitt Motor Company and, in late 1912, finally became the Flanders Motor Company. Only the big 6-cylinder car appeared under the Flanders label. This model "50-Six" was in general the Everitt Six-48 with the addition of electric lighting and starting. Only a handful of these 130-wheelbase-cars might have built as, shortly after introduction, Walter Flanders was asked by Benjamin Briscoe to help saving the United States Motors Company which was in severe trouble. Flanders agreed. In the end, of the about 12 makes involved, including his own Flanders, he closed all but one: The Maxwell, ancestor of the later Chrysler Corporation. References Sources Kimes, Beverly R. (editor), Clark, Henry A.: The Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805–1945, Krause Publications (1985), External links https://web.archive.org/web/20090527081233/http://mbautomuseum.com/Tour/flanders1912.htm Manitoba Antique Automobile Museum, Elkhorn, Manitoba (Canada); Exhibits a Canadian-built Flanders Model "20" from 1912 Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of the United States Manufacturing companies based in Detroit Motor vehicle manufacturers based in Michigan Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1910 American companies established in 1910