1910 Brush Model D Runabout
edited by David Barth, 10 January 2009.
Courtesy The Forney Museum of Transportation at 4303 Brighton Blvd., Denver,
Colorado. Photos were taken in January 2009.
Alanson P. Brush designed the early Oaklands and served as consulting engineer to General Motors during the years of
William C. Durant.
To start his own company, Brush was backed by Frank Briscoe whose brother, Benjamin Briscoe, had big plans for a
General Motors-type of automotive empire.
The little two-seater was one of the most popular American cars at the time. It had oil-treated oak and hickory
chassis and axles.
The Brush was more than 30 years ahead of its time by using coil springs at all four corners instead of leaf
springs that were used by other automobile manufacturers.
The Brush Runabout Company was absorbed into Bricoe's United States Motor Company in 1910 and ceased to
exist when that company collapsed.
