Pan Motor Co.

In 1916, Samuel C. Pandolfo a one time insurance salesman and former teacher decided to form his own automobile company. Pandolfo was one of the first businessmen to use the automobile in the Southwest and had owned 37 different makes. His dissatisfaction with all of them for one reason or another started him thinking about his own design.

However all good things come to an end. Locally trouble began when the Associated Advertising Club of Minneapolis, a forerunner of the Better Business Bureau, lodged a complaint with the State Securities Commission claiming the company was spending more on promotion than its Minnesota charter permitted. By 1922 Samuel C. Pandolfo was in jail and the company was in receivership.

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In 1916, Samuel C. Pandolfo a one time insurance salesman and former teacher decided to form his own automobile company. Pandolfo was one of the first businessmen to use the automobile in the Southwest and had owned 37 different makes. His dissatisfaction with all of them for one reason or another started him thinking about his own design.

However all good things come to an end. Locally trouble began when the Associated Advertising Club of Minneapolis, a forerunner of the Better Business Bureau, lodged a complaint with the State Securities Commission claiming the company was spending more on promotion than its Minnesota charter permitted. By 1922 Samuel C. Pandolfo was in jail and the company was in receivership.

Subject ID: 79336

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