Hupmobile car dressmakers 'Girl with Fruit'

'Girl with Fruit'

The south end of Fairfax House

It was demolished in 1941

Also showing a shop sign for Harrison's pawnbrokers with an advertising poster opposite

Hupmobile car dressmakers 'Girl with Fruit'Hupmobile car, (c1925 c1935?). The Hupp Motor Car Co was founded by Robert Craig Hupp in 1909, and the first Hupmobile was exhibited at the Detroit Motor Show of that year. The company was a major player in the American motor industry in its early years, and in 1928, 65,000 cars were sold. However the onset of the Depression coincided with the company expanding its capacity, and this, together with a boardroom struggle, plunged the company into