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{{Short description|American automobile}}
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[[File:1907 Hol-Tan Advertisement.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Hol-Tan Advertisement]]
The '''Hol-Tan''' was an American [[Car|automobile]] manufactured in 1908 only.

==History==
The Hol-Tan company was established in 1906 by G. P. Tangeman, [[Cornelius Hoagland Tangeman]] and E. R. Hollander as an automobile dealership in [[New York City]]. This incorporation switched their unofficial (since 1902) importation of [[Fiat]]s to an official status. Hol-tan later announced that it had given up the Fiat license and would now concentrate on selling American cars only. In fact, Fiat had revoked Hol-Tan's license, in preparation for the launch of Fiat production in [[Poughkeepsie, New York]].

The new Hol-Tan automobile was built by the [[Moon Motor Company]] of [[St. Louis, Missouri]]. Moon's C and D models were shipped to the Hollander & Tangman company of New York City and sold under the Hol-Tan name. Some cars received custom bodies in New York by Locke, Quinby and Demarest,<ref name="kimes713">Kimes, p.713.</ref> but most were standard Moons with a new name. Hol-Tans cost $3000 or more; expensive for the time.<ref name="kimes713"/>

The company had planned to create a desirable image by taking their cars racing, but this never happened. Although Hol-Tan was the first U.S. company to enlist for the [[1908 New York to Paris Race]], they never provided an auto for it. The company also entered the [[Glidden Tour|AAA Reliability Run]] in the summer of 1908, though they substituted a [[Shawmut Motor Company|Shawmut]] at the last minute.<ref>Kimes, p.714.</ref> The reason for using a Shawmut rather than another [[marque]] was that the Hol-Tan Company was the New York City dealer of that brand.

The Hol-Tan car was not a great success, having lasted only one year. The following year, Hol-Tan once again became solely an automobile dealership. In 1910, the company turned to dealing in [[Delaunay-Belleville]] and [[Lancia]], after Shawmut went out of business. There are no known surviving Hol-Tans.<ref>McConnell, 1995{{page needed|date=March 2024}}</ref>

==Notes==
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==References== 
* {{cite book |editor-last=Georgano |editor-first=Nick |editor-link=G.N. Georgano |title=Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile |year=2000 |publisher=HMSO |location=London |isbn=1-57958-293-1}} {{page needed |date=February 2024}}
* {{cite book |ref=Kimes |last1=Kimes |first1=Beverly Rae |last2=Clark Jr |first2=Henry Austin |year=1996 |title=Standard Catalog of American Cars: 1805-1942 |edition=Third |location=Iola, WI |publisher=Krause |isbn=0-87341-428-4}}
* {{cite book |last=McConnell |first=Curt |year=1995 |title=Great Cars of the Great Plains |publisher=University of Nebraska Press |isbn=0-8032-3163-6}}{{page needed |date=February 2024}}
* {{Cite book |last=Burgess-Wise |first=David |author-link=David Burgess-Wise |title=The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Automobiles |year=2000 |publisher=BookSales Inc |edition= May 2000 Rev Upd |pages=<!--559 is incorrect, that's the total page count--> |isbn=0-7858-1106-0}}{{page needed |date=February 2024}}

[[Category:Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of the United States]]
[[Category:Cars introduced in 1908]]
[[Category:Motor vehicle manufacturers based in New York (state)]]


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