Of the Society of Automotive Historians, Inc

THEJO AL OF THE SOCIETY OF AUTOMOTIVE HISTORIANS, INC.

JANUARY- FEBRUARY 1982 ISSUE NUMBER 76

Editorial facets of the world of the a utomobile, a nd doubtless shall become We are now a "Journal" and a few have questioned the need for a the mecca for a ll Texan a utophiles a nd all a utophiliac (l doubt tha t's name cha nge. A newsletter tells members of an organization what a word, but it fits] travelers to Da ll as, a meeting place for everyone its members are doing and events it will have in the future a nd in the area interested in the automobile and its history. reports on those that have been held. This we most certail y do but History greets you before you even enter the shop. The exterior is we do more tha n that. We are a dairy of automotive history, a group g lorious ly Art Deco, with d oo rs imported from England a nd of individua ls tha t although widely spread geographicall y come fea turing intricately detailed bronze mullions in sixty-two sections. together in the interest of the preserva ti on, researching, a nd The large windows a re in a ntique wrought iron casements- a nd the recording of a utomotive history, past a nd present. Our interests are overal l effec t is a look tha t is s tric tl y 1930's. A step inside the s hop, ma de known and recorded in our common journa l. This first issue a nd you're a t the turn of the century. Most of the display cases a nd for 1982 features an excellent selection of period photos of the cabi nets were built about 1907, Fred estima tes, by th e Quincy duPont a utomobile during ils firs t five years of production. We have Showcase Works of Quincy, Illinois. The new cabinets in the shop member Hayden Shepley of Toughkenamon, Pa. lo thank for s haring complement the antique pieces. The device to accept negoti able th em with us. curre ncy is earl y vi ntage a ti ona! Cash Register, bullhe shop a lso · ~· accepts the usual cred it cards which neatly lakes care of the Walt Gosden postwar-to-today phase of commerical transacting. The book department, the shop's largest, includes both recent titles and significant books published in the automotive his tory Since Frederick z. Tycher (SAH #297) is a bui ld er/developer by field w hich remains in prints. Al the back of th e s hop is the a rt profession, an a utomobil e his toria n by preference, it followed that department which ran~es from 19th Century cycling broadsides lo hi s new Automotive Emporium in Da ll as would be quite something Monlaul prints lo co ll ector car posters. Wha t is in between gives a ll on several counts. ll is . ll is a lso absolutely unique. new varietal meaning to the word "ephemerae" a nd in cludes Fred terms the Automotive Emporium a bookstore/gallery, but is a rtifacts of a utomoti ve history running a marvelous gamut from a n much more th a n tha t. ll's a n eclecti c bringing together of the ma n y AAA li cense plate a ttac hment of 1918 ( ew York Automobile

Jean K.F. du Pont in the first du Pont p)leaton of 1919, s he s till resides in thi s house today. Associa tion, city of Troy] to an O ldsmobile Legion of Honor plaque Letters of 1940 awarded as a n "emblem of achievement" to a pa rtic ularly aggresive Olds salesmen to the emblem for the Pan car via which From: Ralph Dunwoodie, 5935 Calico Drive, Sun Valley, evada Sam Pandolpho attempted to swindle the a utomotive public in 89431. The photo of the 1914 Rayfield Indianapolis '500' entry Minnesota after the First World War. In addition to the memorabili a, submitted by jerry Gebby in ewsletter #74 is the first I've seen of there are numerous automotive obj ets d'art - a nd a n estimable Rayfield's Indy entry. jerry slated that he had no specifications. collection of original litera ture which covers all a utomotive er as. They are as follows: 4.135" bore and 5.5" stroke, ma king a The Automotive Emporium was formally opened on Sunday, displacement of 443.6 cubic inches, L-head. The car's design was the December 6th, 1981 with a wine and cheese party to which everyone cooperative efforts of Willia m Ra yfi eld and Hughie Hug hes. The with a car club affiliation in the area was invited. The Automotive motor was built by the Ray fi eld Motor Co. under Hughes Emporium is a dream Fred Tycher has had for years, a nd it's super supervision. The car weighed only 1950 lbs. It broke a cra nks haft that he had it. The automobil e and its history have long deserved a prior to q ualifying. shop like this. Rayfie ld passenger ca rs used a radia tor located aft of the engi ne as Beverl y Ra e Kimes did Croxton-Keeton, Renault a nd Mack "Bu lldog" to na me a few. Rayfi eld moved from Springfiels, Illinois to Chrisman, Illinois in New Members 1912. W.E. Givens #880 In Ra y fi eld's 1912 attempt at racing it used a stripped s tock 27354 Lawrence Dr. chassis (illustration enclosed). Dearborn H eights, MI. 48127 This js the same Rayfield tha t manufactured the well known David W. Rice #881 905 . Gainsbarough Or. Rayfield carburetor. Pasadena, CA. 91107 According to former Rayfield empl oyee, john Hobbs, (i n 1967) a pprox ima tely 400 Rayfield cars were produced. Mr. Hobbs was the Mark L. Dees #882 driver of the 1912 Rayfield race car. P.O. Box3887 jerry mentions production a lso in Peru, India na -Rayfield Beverly Hills, CA. 90212 negoti a ted a n agreement with the Great Western Automobile Co. of New Address Peru, Indiana to have Great Western assemble Rayfield cyclecars in David Wilk #848 1915 aft er deciding to assembly ra ther than ma nufacture as they 65 Fair St. had in the past. Guilford, CT. 06437 In Oc tober of 1915 Rayfi eld sued Great Western for non .... performance, whether or not Great Western actually assembled a ny Minda Bojin, Libra rian #156 Rayfield cars is unknown to me. all. Museum Science & Tech. 1867 St. La urent Blvd. Rayfield Gasoline Cars. Ottawa, Ontario M:oJe hy tho Rayfletd Motor Car Co .• Sprtngtleld, Ill. Canada K1A OM8 ja mes Perrin #293 Bo x 6098 S a nta Barbara, CA. 93111 Linda Clark #866 P.O. Bo x 24 South Dartmouth, MA. 02 748 I. Reeve Sw~ey #582 RAYFTEf,tJ .SIX-P ASSENGER ROADSTE'R. $1.850. 300 Oak Ori v~ Motor, water coo led, 2'2-25 h. p., 6 cyl., 3 x 3~. cast In pairs: Jump spark lgn!Uon rroru Bosch mo1111eto: sliding selec Ormond Beach, FL. 32074 uve ball bearing transmission , four speeds forward; direct abort drive on tltlrd: expanding special clutch, sur raced with Raymond A. Wolff #383 cooper and leather: two sets or brakes, exoandlng and co n Wolff Interna ti onal tracting on rear wheels; steering wheel at the right; gas tan~ at the rear; frame of pressed steel; front s.vrlnp semi-elllo P.O. Box 13493 Uc. rear s.orlngs %, elllpUc; wheel base 116 inches. EQuip Milwaukee, WI. 53213 ment, five lam:os. hom. Prest-0-I.Jte tank, tools, jack and repair outflt.

Editor Walter E Gosden. Edi torial Office: SAH News Art Director letter. 197 Mayfair Ave, Floral John M. Peckha m Park. Long Island. NY 11001 RAYFIF.J,IJ TOY TONNEAU, $2.000. Four pa9Senger toy t on n e~tu body, gas tank under sent. Other detaJls of th e chassis tlle same as for the roadster. Publication Committee RAYFIELD JUNIOR. $1.500 . Walter E Gosden Motor. 14. - lG h. p., four cylinders, cut. in patrs. Other George B P Ward.Jr David L Lewis •·1t';at ls the same o.s for the roadster. Frederick D Roe

From: Jerry E. Gebby, 310 Appalachian Drive, The Hi ghlands, Route The SAH Newsle tter is published I Copyright 1982 6, Tuscon, Arizono 85704. I'm enclosing a photo for the Mystery Car six limes a year by The Society of The Society of Automoitve pege, a REAL mystery this time, I can't furnish a solution! My last, Automotive Hi storia ns Inc. Historia ns Inc. the Rayfield car, brought mec ha ni cal date from Fred Roe, who copied some dope from a n old magazin e. In return for tha t favor I SOCIETY OF AUTOMOTIVE HISTORIA S' OFFICERS 1982 was able to loan a photo of a Hoskins Special racing car. I have done a lot of research on this car and so far have come up PRESIDENT SECRETA RY with nothing. Michigan Motor Vehicle Dep't. discards records in the David L. Lewis Cha rles L Betts Jr 10th year. The Detroit Library passed. G-M Proving Grounds passed it all around a nd included some retirees, but nothing. 2588 Hawthorn Rd. 2105 Stackhouse Dr Cornelius Van Ra nst and Tommy Milton were co nnected with Ann Arbor, MI. 48104 Yardley. PA 19067 several US cars on prototype development but letters from both VICE PRESIDENT TREASURER deny a ny knowledge of this one. Cameron Peck, who purci) ased some firsts a nd prototypes doesn't recognize the car. From the fan, George B P Ward, Jr Keith Marvin steering gear layout and the built-in jack I suspect foreign origin. It c/o Maryland National Bank P.O. Bo x 839 is a front-wheel drive, with a V-16 engine that is definitely not one of P 0 Box 987 Troy, N.Y. 12181 the three we had in this country, Cadillac and Marmon, which Baltimore, MD 21203 reac,hed public sale status, a nd the Peerless, of which one was built.

2 From: C. ] . Haines, Jr. (#799}, 3300 Fairfield Street, Lauderdale, Po. From: W.O. Mac/Jvain, 17 Bonner Road, Manchester, Co nn . 06040. 19605. Saw some co rrespondence recently on trucks a nd thought th e In your ovember iss ue of the SAH newsletter, there is some following might be of some interest. discuss ion about the Rayfield car, a long with jerry Gebby's nice White Elephant Sale: There was a sale in Cleveland, Ohio the photo of the 1914 Rayfield entry al India napolis. week of November 11th, 1981 at the White Truck plant. More than I haven't a nything on the racer, but the Rayfi eld car was the $2,000,000 worth of tooling, machines, material handling equipment outg rowth of the Springfield, in 1911. Unlike the Springfield, the a nd miscellaneous eq uipment was sold to more than 600 buyers. Rayfield had the radiator behind a Rena ult-type hood. It seems tha t Most of White Motors assets were sold last August to AB Volvo, Rena ult's pa tents on tha t hood design expired about that lime, a nd it however, the Clevela nd plant and The White Motor Credit was taken up by several ma kers in Europe, a nd in this co untry by Corporation were not included. The Cleveland plant which at one Franklin, Lippa rd-Stew arl, Stewart, and Rayfield. time turned out 63 heavy-duty trucks daily opened in 1900 as the Now the Springfield car started in 1907 in Springfi eld , White Sewing Machine Compa ny producing a steam car and two Massachusetts, made by the Med-Bow Automobile Co. Dr. H a rry C. years la ter s team commerical vehicles a nd for a lmos t eighty years, Medcrafl was sec./ treas. of the co mpany, and FrankL. Brigham was trucks, trucks, trucks .. .. president. Some cars may have been built name MED-BOW, or (Editors' ate: Member Elliott Ka hn adds: "The White vehicle MEDCRAFT. operations have all been sold to other firms, the last now being In 1908 the name was changed to H.C. Medcraft Automobile Co. , called Volvo White Truck Co., now headquartered in orth of which D.E. Leary was presid ent. One car was s hown a t the Carolina. They have plants in Virginia a nd Utah making White a nd Chicago show in Feb. 1908, shown in MoToR, jan. 1908. Production Autocar trucks. The old White firm is still in business with a much was onl y ca. two cars (named Springfield]. infla ted balance sheet. The manufacturing operations have all been In 1909 production was moved, curiousl y, to Springfield, Illinois. sold, its farm operation to a combination of Canadian, Texas a nd Horseless Age for 6/ 2/09: "Springfield Motor Car Co., Springfield, japanese firms; its Western Star truck operatio n to two Canadian Ill., formerly of Springfield, Mass."- tells of co mpletion of first car. based firms , a nd the a meri can truck operations to Volvo.) In 1911 this became the Rayfield Motor Car Co. , a/ c to The American Car s ince 1775. From: Ronald]. Putz, 201 Sa lzburg Ave., Bay Cit y, Mi chigan 48705- o doubt someone else will co me up with more co mplete 5317: It seems that the ed ito r of the SAH ewsletter a t times chides informa tion tha t I have, but here is a start, a nyw ay. members to send items in , and rightfully does so! I do fee l g uilty for Keep up the good work. not doi ng more but can a t least make some minor contribution by From: Elliot Kahn, P.O. Box 869, Clearwater, Fl. 33517-0869: enclosing these two photographs. The one photo of the solid lire Received ewsletter #74- pictures quite ni ce and wish I knew Union truck w ith carl in low is circa 1922, the second photograph of identity of mysteries as the car in primer is qui te nice looking, looks the bus is also a Union, taken in 1929. I do not know the model of the a bit like one of funeral car makers products, but will turn out to be a bus nor where to look for information to tell of model designations Cadill ac. for Union trucks/ buses, perhaps some SAH member can tell me But my point this time is something else completely. The letter where I can begin to look. from George Ha nley is,one that I dislike to see, as it always seems someone wants to cut down a n y historical group to jU T his interest, w hic h are us uall y quite narrow. AUTOMOTIVE refers to a huge area, no doubt about it, items a mong it do not even have to have a self contained form of power on them, a nd AUTOMOTIVE interests should NOT be RESTRICTED to just VEHICLES, but their parts as well, s uch as tires, ba tteries, bodies, spark plugs a nd so on, and certainly all those items were subjects in many S.A.E. journa l issues over the years, fo r they are A PART of picture. Going a bi t further, most firms that make parts for passenger cars, trucks, buses and like, a lso make parts for Airplanes, for boats, a nd quite a bit more, for example how can you consider LYCOMJ G if you just think of them as a Passenger car or truck engine builders when they a re very big in airpla nes a nd have long been so. Also are used in boats, even 0 a utomotive uses for tha t matters. MACK, the truck maker, like dozens of firms have also made portable power plants, oi l drilling rigs, semi a nd full trailers, bodies; as well as wagons, railroad cars, railroad motor cars, locomotives a nd believe me all interesting subjects for me, maybe not Mr. Ha nley, but I'm sure I a m no t a lone either. Certainly th ere has been more coverage of the passenger vehicle in the pages of S.A.H. tha n a nything else and no doubt this is because it may interest more, or maybe because more had been written on it, and not hing wrong with that either, but to legisla te out everything but the passenger car is a bit ridiculous because I don't think the S .A.H. has even DEF I ED w hat a passenger car incl ude yet, nor do I think many of the members even have any idea, any more than w hat is the difference between a taxicab a nd a passenger car or a bus, w hat is a people mover, a personnel carrier and so on. The simple fact is that the name of the organization IS OT SOCIETY of AUTOMOBILE HISTORIA S , the word a utomobile has become a popular term used to describe 0 LY a passenget· car, but SOCIETY of AUTOMOTIVE HJSTORJA S a nd that is a far d ifferent field. Something else that a lways puzz les me is that quite oft en I see published li sts like the Rh ode Island one this time of vehicle on the road years ago, or at least those that had a li ce nse plate. And something that seems T RUE EVERY T IME, a nd again now is that the list is published listing a good many brands that! fail to fi nd in any list of know products, and OT A SI GLE COMME T ever notes it nor even tries to tell anythi ng, and of co urse a good reason is From: ]. Va lentine (#307), P.O. Box 2596, Culver City, CA. 90230- the person giving us the li t has no more idea about some I do know 1596. I enclose a xerox of a photograph I obtained recently.lt shows w ha t they were. a tractor truck unit labeled WIDETRAK, the picture taken pri or lo Going a bit to your ed itorial, frankly the place for obscure brands 1970 in Salinas, California. It carries Cali forn ia dealer plate number is in the pages of SAH publications (Ed itors note: I never said it 1A 480, year not indicated on front plates in this s tate. It has solid wasn't the place for obscure makes] for often such s ubjects are front axle a nd longi tudinal leaf springs at the fro nt as well. Tires are hi ghl y interesting to members a nd just are not "commeri cia l items" Firestone, a nd the paint is very fresh, even on the w heels a nd visible as everyone else seems to have something on Ford, or Pontiac, or undercarriage. Can a ny reader provide any clues as to the builder or Dodge, or Packard, a nd some pretty books are out. So who needs the to any components used? same territory covered in pages of SAH? Certainl y I do not. 3 Another item that SAH EWSLETTER should be used for is a service lo its members of pointing out articles in various periodicals full of errors which NEVER a re corrected by publisher a nd like as not are usually copied by future authors in future articles, and repreated all over again. And believe me there are plenty. YOU ASK for data, a nd articles, but WHAT DO YOU WA T? Thumb nail sketches or items that do not s tep on members toes like saying their book or article was great, and no mention of all mistakes or not critize publications who habitually refurse to ever correct any of their mistakes or darn few. Especially this seems to be true of publications done or edited by SAH Board or officers. I know other members who have sent in quite a bit, NONE ever noted nor published and of course I know what I sent too. I also know you have relatively little space, so I know ALL ca nnot fit, and really space is NOT THERE for any MAJOR STORY or GROUP of ideas like I have in this letter even. You can air one item or a portion of what I have in letter and feel free to do so. As for pictures, as well as many common ones, appear in virtually all cl ub publications, as well as some pretty rare, soil would not make a lot of sense for SAH to publish MODEL A FORDS; or LA SALLE's, or a good many other brands which are pretty well known. Perhaps not the 37 Lincoln Zephyr like s hown this time either, good photo of course, but hardly an unknown item. What should be done is what you usually do, an Book Announcements unknown or virtually unknown vehicle, or else a very early model which precedes most of us. And as I mention U KNOWN issan!Datsun: A History of Nissan Motor Corporation in USA, VEHICLES can be brand new ones. How many of your members 1960-1980 by john Rae, 331 pages, $19.95; McGraw-Hill Book Co., ever saw a SPARKS, or have literature on it, or perhaps if they saw 1221 Avenue of the Americas, N.Y., N.Y. 10020 one knew what they were seeing? Yet anyone who has watched KNOT's LA DING on T.V. will see John Boeck drive this brand of Book Review automobile. Walter il seems to me maybe you ought to tell people what you The Veteran Car Club, 50 Years Pictoral History, by Elizabeth agle want, a nd not keep asking for contributions as has been the case. and Michael Sedgwick, published by The Veteran Car Club af Great Why waste our lime when maybe what you want are pictures of Britain. Distributed in, the United Kingdom by Menoshire Ltd., custom boides classics and early cars only, or data on the 1908 available in the U.S. ffom Motorbooks International, Osceola, WI. Ersatz V-8, or some other specific item not something else. Price $30.95; hardcover, 176 pages, 8112 x 12. umerous photographs. Lo ok forward to seeing more of SAH publications this year, but The Golden Jubilee of the VCC of Great Britain was in 1980, and like a good many, I am not too happy with what my $20 has bee n this book tells the story of one of the worlds oldest "antique car" bringing me, yet I must admit through the EWSLETTER I have had clubs in the world. It is an organization that started the London contact ith a number of highl y talented and knowledgeable people Brighton revi al runs in 1930; an organization that because of its around lh World, which personally have netted me a great deal of early efforts devoted to the preservation of pioneer motor cars, is inform alio~ publications a nd photographs I would not have had, now a part of a utomotive history itself. This book is a continuous had I not joiqed SAH and maybe that IS REAL value of membership narrative of text and photographs celebrating the history of the not just the publications as I and other sometimes start lo believe. Veteran Car Club. The VCC, founded by noted race car driver and writer S.C.H. "Sammy" Davis, was a tremendous influence on most of the major vintage car cl ubs to be formed worldwide in years to Classified Ad fo llow. Authors agle and Sedgwick did their job extremely well and present an accurate as well as interesting history. The paper Want co py of the Union truck [made Bay City, Mich.] pamphlet a nd binding is of highest quality, and the photographic reproduction "Experience" issued late in 1920. Also a dealer's handbook regarding is also excellent. This book is an excell ent tribute to an organization the selling of Union trucks. Ronald]. Putz, 201 Salzburg Ave., Bay that all of us who are interested in early a utomobiles owe a nod of City, Michigan 48706-5317. thanks to for setting the foundation . It is recommended to all.

Walter E. Gosden Mystery photos: The photo of the hi-wheeler with tiller steering co mes from Member Jim Petrik of Ohio, he notes he took the photo some lime ago and a sign on the car stated il was an "1897 LA CIA: THE SHIELD A D FLAG, by igel Trow. 270 pp., 70 Holderman", can any member tell us more about this car or if there illustrations. 9'12" x 6'14'. Hardbound. ISBN 0 7153 7882 1. David & really was a Holderma n a utomobile. The photo of the car with the Charles, Inc. , orth Pomfret, Vermont. 1980. $35.00 V16 engine and 1932 Michigan manufacturers license plate comes The story of the Lancia is the story of many things, notably racing from jerry Gebby; [see his letter in Letters section) any information and almost uncanny prowess in engineering and this new book by on either of these machines would be welcomed. igel Trow will appeal especially to the audience comprising the enthusiasts of both. It goes further than that, through, and traces the life and times of Vincenzo Lancia, scion of a wealthy owner of a Turin canning company, through the years of his first successes both in manufacturing and on the track, as well as the impact of the "Lambda" model, to his untimely death in 1937 at the age of 56. But Lancia the man left a tradition behind him which saw his products continued with the same precision and excell ence they had known under his personal touch, a tradition which the marque maintains to this day. A good many Lancias found their way to the United States over the years and the Lambda was especially popular in the nearly nine years of its production. Since World War II, an increasing number of Lancias have found favor with domestic fine car lo vers. Like Fiat, Rolls-Royce many years later, Volkswagen, Lancia entertained dreams of setting up manufacturing facilities· in the United States and the American Lancia Company was set up. Unlike the others, however, the idea atrophied and progres never left the paper stage and whereas Fiat and Rolls-Royce lovers could purchase their cars al Poughkeepsie or Springfield a t one time or another, the L:ancis remainded exclusively a foreign car for its American clientele.

4 Not the least interesting aspect of LANCIA: THE S HIELD A D enthusiast. With this background it was to be expec ted that the FLAG, is a 170-page summary of facts and figures, li sting the artis tic side of the history of the automobile would be selec ted for hi story and specificati ons of every model built. treatment by this publisher. An especia ll y good study of a quality motor car. Maeght's first offering in the field of automotive art books is devoted to the work which, from the earl y Twenties through the' Keith Marvin early Sixties, bore the cryptic signature of A. Kow. This was the contraction of a much longer name with which Alex Kow was born in Moscow in the early years of this ce ntury. He had the luck to The Mercedes-Benz Book by Victor Bo esen and Wendy Grad; 224 grown up in Switze rland, where he received a technical education at pages, black and white and color photogra phs. $24.95. Doubleday. the Arts et Metiers in Geneva. He moved to Paris at the age of 19, This la test book on the history of the Mercedes-B enz has both w here he began working as a draftsman in a small coachbuilding very good a nd poor qualities. There are interesting family trees of establishment. Kow soon became a m aster a t automotive rendering, both G. Da imler and Karl Benz, and better than half the book is on to which he brough his own style of suggesting speed, power, and the pre WW II history of the car a nd the company. The black and grace. w hite photographs are excell ent and a good number of illustra tion of One of the most artistically significant documents of this period ad vertisements done in woodcut are especially attractive as collec tion is a study made for Pan hard in 1922; it a ppears in the body they s how the strong graphic noveau and deco art style of the era. of the book in black and white and on its dust jacket in full color, and The paper the book is printed on is superb enamel stock. Chapter 10 co ns titutes a forecast of the strength and inventiveness to come. But deals w ith current Mercedes owners and takes up 30 plus pages. The it was in 1924 that Kow's career acquired its definitive orienta tion. listing of the co lor plates is in the front of the book and notes about This was when he began to work with Hotchkiss' new sales director, the color photographs, although very detailed, are listed in the back one M. jacobsen, who took the ad vertising pages of the American of the book which forces the reader to flip back and forth to know magazine Th e Saturday Evening Past [but of co urse!) as his Bible. what one is looking at, which can be very bothersome. Another Together the two men dissected every important ad in the great old annoyance is that a good 25% of the co lor photographs get a bit to weekly, seeking to smoke out the secrets of success of the "a rtsy" and the vehicles become secondary subject matter, as they acknow ledged masters of th is form of communication and persua are over powered by the dramatic setting they were so obvious ly sion. They even created a slogan for Hotchkiss which paraphrased posed in. This to me is one of the biggest flaws of a very decent book. Packard's "Ask the Man Who Owns One". Forty of the black and w hite ads w hi ch sprang from this beginning adorn the bo ok, along with ten in co lor. W.E. Gosden T he Hotchkiss ads cover the period 1926 through about 1951- the epoch of the daring H otchkiss-Gregoire. Those done for Panhard extend from 1922 through the Dynas of the la te Fifties. Then there a re assorted graphics for Citroen, Delahaye, Li corne, Malford, A. Kow - Quaronte Ans de Creation Publicitoire Automobile, Peugeot, and others. One of the most important of these is the preface by Maurice Genevoix, hi stori cal notes by C. H. Tavard. artwork for a Type 5~Sugatti sales folder of 1937 which illustrates Editions de l'Aulomobiliste, 42 rue du Bac, 75007 Paris. Hardcover, five "house" body styles. Another co nsists of similar material for the 9. 75 x 13 inches (24.5 x 33 em), 178 pages. 210 French francs plus ten Hispano-Suiza V12 of 1935. francs shipping charge. In all , there are in this very handsome volume 83 illustration in The quarterly magazine /'Automobiliste is published by a very black a nd w hi te and 62 in calor. Most fi ll the large pages a nd double prominent figure in the French historical-car movement, Adrien page spreads are accorded to eight of them. The brief text is Maeght ppro imate pronunciation: mag). The world-famous art symbolic and is not relevant lo Alex Kow nor the the discipline of gall eries created by his father soon led to the creation of a press in co mmerical illustration. The value of the book li es in its graphic Pari s devored to the preparation a nd publication of fine art books. It co ntent. was from tlfis press that l'Automobili ste began to emanate in 1966, recently to be joined by a line of books for the automoti ve Giffith Borgeson

du Pont Molars factory a t Moore, Pa., 1922 lo 1925.

5 First du Pont chassis buill in 1919, with Mr. duPont a t the wheel.

First du Pont chassis outside of factory, site of du Pont Marine motors, ancestor of du Pont Motors. ole exhaust pipe and carburetor not allached.

1919 du Pont (possibly the first automobile built]. ote lack of paint, upholstery, top material, and dashboard.

6 1921 du Pont model B roadster, taken immediately after the

1923 du Pont model C touring.

1924 du Pont model 0 roadster.

7 Factory Photo: This Corvette Sting Ray co nvertible was a special show car that Chevrolet had on display a t the Internationa l Automobile Show at the ew York Coliseum in April of 1963. From the collection of the editor. \ ..

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