Safir was a Swiss automobile manufacturer that originated as Schweizer Automobil Fabrik in Rheineck between 1906 and 1907, before relocating and continuing as Safir Automobile in Zürich until around 1909. The company was founded not by a small independent inventor but by two experienced and affluent industrialists, Anton Dufour and Jakob Schmidheiny. They equipped the Zürich premises with modern tool machinery and aimed the venture squarely at the top end…