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195714447np ca. 1957-1958. Hardcover. Very good. 4to. Black three-ring binder with illustrated title label to front containing 17 loosely plastic covered paper leaves profusely filled both recto and verso with black and white photographs and materials on the English Ford line of automobiles. More than 35 various scrap and ephemera elements in all. Front cover moderately worn discolored. Some wrinkling and warping internally. Overall very good. <br/><br/>Fascinating salesman's catalogue produced by British Ford marketing their cars to American dealerships. Struggling financially Post-WWII Britain enacted an "Export or Die" mandate for its domestic carmakers in hopes of injecting more stable currencies into its economy. This act mandated aggressive sales in foreign markets and especially in The United States. Ford of Britain had operated as a subsidiary of the Ford Motor Company since 1909 producing an entirely different line from its American division. Since it was indeed a British car manufacturer Ford was forced compete with itself. These materials date from a 1957-1958 push aimed at getting existing U.S. Ford dealerships to sell and service the cars of their English counterpart. Included are specification sheets and sample advertisements for the various models: 10 approximately 8" x 10" black and white promotional photographs a body color chart with paint samples dealer pricing and cost sheets with option breakdowns and import costs analysis charts comparing the Anglia and Prefect that's right the Ford Prefect with comparable and competing European imports blank sales forms a service policy paint mixing formulas and a list of the financial spatial and service requirements of potential dealers. The modest sales of English Ford passenger cars in the U.S. peaked in 1958-1959 at approximately 75000 compared with an estimated 1.5 million units sold by Ford USA in 1957 alone. Numbers limped along through the 1960's with the last model The Cortina discontinued in 1971. A rare surviving source from an unusual chapter in American and British automotive history as well as a uncommon example of marketing and trade automobiliana. hardcover books
1988151333N.p.: N.p. 1988. Archive of 120 vernacular borderless color snapshot photographs of the Detroit Grand Prix taken in 1986 1987 and 1988.<br/><br/>In the summer of 1982 the US became the first country to host three World Championship Grands Prix in one season with the older Grand Prix West races in Long Beach and Las Vegas joined by the newly established Detroit Grand Prix in Michigan near the General Motors headquarters. The Detroit race continued to be held annually for the next six years in spite of its growing reputation for its narrow bumpy track a result of the race taking place on a closed street course in downtown Detroit and typically hot humid weather. These factors would ultimately push FISA to declare the track unsafe ending the circuit's affiliation with Formula One in 1988 to be replaced by the CART-sanctioned Detroit Indy Grand Prix the following year. <br/><br/>The photographs in the archive document an attendee's perspective of the races from 1986-1988 won all three years by Brazilian champion driver Ayrton Senna. The photographs are taken from both the main grandstand and the garages with views of the vibrant car designs downtown cityscape and track layout on full display. An uncommonly thorough look at three successive years in the race's history more broadly capturing the end result of Formula One's attempts to expand internationally throughout the decade.<br/><br/>Photographs 5.25 x 3.5 inches housed in three separate envelopes grouping the photographs by year 1986 1987 and 1988. Photographs and envelopes generally Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1950151268N.p.: N.p. 1950. Archive of 13 vintage single-weight vernacular photographs and 1 vintage double-weight vernacular photograph of open-wheel racing events held at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines circa 1950s. <br/><br/>The photographs in the archive show close-ups shots of races at the Iowa State Fairgrounds' original half-mile dirt track with the idiosyncratic vehicle designs and paint schemes of the era on full display. Also included in the archive are several photographs of the Bardahl Special #2 "The Black Deuce" a champion racing car owned by noted car collector Hector Honore Jr. with the car's second driver Bobby Grim behind the wheel. <br/><br/>Open-wheel racing was first sanctioned in the US by the AAA Contest Board who introduced the first track season national championship in 1905. The sport grew in popularity after World War II attributable in large part to the rapid innovations in auto engineering and design throughout the 1950s. In the ensuing decade the rise of the Chevy V8 would quickly render prewar four-cylinder and flathead engines obsolete making the photographs in the archive a valuable record of early race car construction and use. <br/><br/>Photographs generally Very Good plus lightly and evenly faded. N.p. unknown books
1977152028N.p.: R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co 1977. Vintage poster for the 1978 Daytona 500 held on February 19 1978 at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach Florida. Poster is cross promotion for the 1978 Daytona 500 and Winston Cigarettes. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company's Winston Cigarettes sponsored the NASCAR Cup Series from 1971 to 2003.<br/><br/>The 1978 NASCAR Grand National Winston Cup Series was the 30th season of US professional stock car racing and the 7th modern era NASCAR Cup series. The 1978 Daytona 500 was the 20th running of the event and the second race of the 1978 Winston Cup season. Defending winner Cale Yarborough won the pole and Bobby Allison won the race.<br/><br/>20 x 27.75 inches. Very Good with some edgewear creasing and small closed tears at extremities 1/2 to 1 inch chips on top and bottom right corners and very light foxing on bottom. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co unknown books
1956151379Indianapolis: O'Dell and Shields Studios 1956. Two vintage photo albums documenting Dean Van Lines Indy car team before during and after the Indianapolis 500 in 1955 and 1956 with legendary driver Jimmy Bryan at the helm. Several photographs stamped on the verso by the O'Dell and Shields Studios of Indianapolis longtime contract photographers for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. <br/><br/>Dean a California moving company magnate and noted championship car owner began his association with Bryan in 1954 when the driver would score his first significant win the AAA National Championship. The pair would win an astonishing 17 national championship races over the course of the next four years.<br/><br/>The 1955 album contains 12 photographs capturing the moments before the 500 with several views of the team performing last-minute modifications to the Kuzma-Offenhauser better known as the Dean Van Lines #2 Special custom-built by Eddie Kuzma for the 1955 race. Also included in the album are several action shots of the race itself along with a single photograph of Bryan posing behind the wheel of Dean's #7 Champ car. <br/><br/>The second album containing 20 photographs documents the Dean Van Lines team at the 500 the following year with Bryan again behind the wheel. A blown tire around lap 100 would spin the Special into the south infield effectively ending the team's shot at winning the race a moment evocatively captured in the album. Dean and Bryan would take the roadster pictured in both albums to the short-lived Race of Two Worlds in Italy in 1957 an event which featured Indy drivers racing against European Formula One drivers. <br/><br/>Bryan would go on to win the 500 in 1958 for George Salih only a few years before his death at 34 in a crash on the Langhorne Speedway in 1960. <br/><br/>A fascinating collection of photographs providing an unusually intimate look behind the scenes at two pivotal figures in US motorsport history. <br/><br/>Albums 11.25 x 8.5 inches photographs 8 x 11 inches. Albums and contents generally Very Good plus. O'Dell and Shields Studios unknown books
1964151477San Diego: San Diego Timing Association 1964. Archive of vintage programs bulletins flyers and newspaper clippings published by and relating to the San Diego Timing Association a foundational sanctioning organization in US drag racing.<br/><br/>In postwar America the return of risk-loving unmarried ex-GIs with advanced mechanical skills and extra money to spend led to the rise in popularity of illegal street racing. Southern California racers took advantage of the growing number of abandoned military strips in the state colloquially known as "drags" such as the Santa Ana Drags and Sweetwater Dam Navy Outlying Field. Local car clubs pressured law enforcement to allow racing on the strips efforts which would precipitate the formation of the San Diego Timing Association.<br/><br/>The SDTA held their first sanctioned meet at the Sweetwater Dam drag which the members renamed Paradise Mesa on March 11 1951. The events drew spectators and racers from across southern California catching the attention of the newly formed National Hot Rod Association which became a co-sanctioning body for the Paradise Mesa meets in 1953. Importantly the Paradise Mesa races were the first to present drag races in their now standard modern form two cars competing on a quarter-mile closed strip.<br/><br/>Paradise Mesa faced local backlash after a gory racing accident in June 1956 which injured 12 spectators leading to the prompt closure of the facility for racing purposes. Tensions between police and racers heightened in the ensuing years culminating in a two-day clash in August of 1960 after racers shut down three blocks off El Cajon Boulevard in San Diego to stage their own unauthorized drags. The El Cajon Boulevard Riot is now considered one of the first of the youth riots which would come to characterize the 1960s. <br/><br/>The materials contained in the archive provide an extensive register of the early years of the Paradise Mesa races compiled by foundational SDTA member Andrew Smith including 16 original programs for events at the strip and 9 mimeographed broadsheet flyers advertising races. The archive also includes several documents authored by members of the SDTA such as a constitution document signed by the members of a car club called The Kingpins and a typescript press release statement created in response to the El Cajon Boulevard riots.<br/><br/>Of particular note is a nine-page circa-1952 mimeographically duplicated issue of the SDTA News subtitled "Competition Rules" which contains the first known use in print of the word "dragster" defining the word as a class of race car formerly known as a "lakester."<br/><br/>A vibrant fascinating collection allowing a rare glimpse into a seminal period in the histories of both auto racing and youth culture sparsely documented up to this point as a result of the scarcity of available information and surviving material. <br/><br/>Housed in a three-ring binder. Binder and contents generally Near Fine. San Diego Timing Association unknown books
1963151483Tooele County UT: N.p. 1963. Archive of 163 vernacular photographs including 145 in color and 18 in black-and-white capturing the 1960-1963 National Speed Trials commonly known as Speed Week at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. Housed in 17 yellow envelopes with dates and names of racers written in holograph ink annotation to the rectos. <br/><br/>Offered with the archive is a brand new set of the two-volume Bonneville National Speed Trials references covering 1949-1958 and 1959-1968 respectively. The set is new and still in shrinkwrap.<br/><br/>In the early 1960s wealthy California car owners began to experiment with surplus jet engines to boost the horsepower of their cars creating distinctive bootlegged hotrods referred to as jet cars or jets designed specifically for the compacted salt surface of the flats. <br/><br/>The photographs in the archive document many early iterations of these unusual and profoundly dangerous vehicles with a particular focus on racers from southern California including Art Arfons' 8000-horsepower Cyclops which set a record for an open-cockpit vehicle 342 mph which still stands today and Mickey Thompson's Challenger I the first car to record a top speed of 400 mph. Also notable are several photographs of the streamliner entries of the Summers brothers in 1961 1962 and 1963 whose streamliner Goldenrod would go on to hold the land speed record from 1965 to 1991. <br/><br/>As a whole the photographs are bright and well-executed clearly shot with a racing insider's eye for detail. Photographs from the perspective of Speed Week attendees are scarce owing to the relatively remote locale and complete absence of accommodations for spectators making the images in the archive an uncommon intimate record of several pivotal years in the history of hotrod racing.<br/><br/>Photographs 5.75 x 3.5 inches envelopes 7.5 x 4. Some photographs with faint adhesive residue to the versos else envelopes and photographs generally Near Fine.<br/><br/>Full provenance available. N.p. unknown books
193734949Bradford PA: Kendall Refining Company 1937. 1 of 8 cc total. Bound in a manilla folder. A VG item. 7 ll typewritten text recto only carbon copy. Illustrated with 1 folded leaf a facsimile log-sheet for Jenkins' 48 hour run Sept 21 - 23 1936 showing 7 parameters MPH Oil Pressure H2O out engine oil temp axle oil temp transmission oil temp & atmospheric temp as recorded over a 52 hour period. 16 captioned b/w snapshots ~ 2-3/4" x 4-1/2" 15 of the car et al & 1 of Jenkins tipped-in to 4 leaves following the log-sheet. 11-1/8" x 8-1/4" <br/><br/>1 of 7 carbon copies of Robinson's typewritten report to H. C. Bougey Chief Chemist General Motors wherein Robinson details the results of sponsored speed runs in 1936 "to establish Worlds' speed records with a view to utilizing results for advertising and sales promotion." The car built was anchored by Duesenberg chassis and powered with a Curtiss Conqueror Model V-1570 engine producing 445 HP. Tires were Firestone. All lubricants from engine to chassis were Robinson. The driver was David Abbott "Ab" Jenkins who just the year prior had established a 24 hour land speed record of 135 mph. For these sponsored attempts as sanctioned by the American Automobile Association there were 4 testing periods: Sept. 7th 21st - 23rd & the 28th. And resulting were the establishment of 19 speed records from 169.57 mph for 100 mile distance to the 48 hour endurance at 148.62 mph. And oh yeah Jenkins upped his 24-hour record to 153.76 mph. Since the letter notes 7 other copies of this report were prepared we can't in good conscious term it "unique" but certainly a rare item documenting the constant quest for more speed in this case a successful one at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats a place made famous by Jenkins and others in these feats of automotive 'chest-thumping'. Kendall Refining Company unknown books
198815939Detroit: Wayne State University Press 1988. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; 334pp. Clean tight and unmarked about Fine without jacket. Wayne State University Press unknown books
1976165452Detroit: Auto Workers United to Fight 1976. 4p 11 x 15.5 inches folded tabloid closed tear at right edge of the fold. Part of 1976 UAW contract effort that took a harder line than the union's leadership; affiliated with the Revolutionary Communist Party. Auto Workers United to Fight unknown books
1983284894Carlyle: EJAG 1983. paperback. very good. 12 issues colored photographic wrappers stapled. Carlisle MA: EJAG Publications 1983.<br/><br/> Fine with address labels on back cover.<br/><br/> EJAG unknown books
1985284897Carlyle: EJAG 1985. paperback. very good. 12 issues colored photographic wrappers stapled. Carlisle MA: EJAG Publications 1985.<br/><br/> Fine with address labels on back cover.<br/><br/> EJAG unknown books
1986284895Carlyle: EJAG 1986. paperback. very good. 12 issues colored photographic wrappers stapled. Carlisle MA: EJAG Publications 1986.<br/><br/> Fine with address labels on back cover.<br/><br/> EJAG unknown books
1987284842Carlyle: EJAG 1987. paperback. fine. 12 issues colored photographic wrappers stapled. Carlisle MA: EJAG Publications 1987.<br/><br/> Fine with address labels on back cover.<br/><br/> EJAG unknown books
1979284898Carlyle: EJAG 1979. paperback. near fine. 12 issues colored photographic wrappers stapled. Carlisle MA: EJAG Publications 1979.<br/><br/> Fine with address labels on back cover.<br/><br/> EJAG unknown books
1980284852Carlyle: EJAG 1980. paperback. near fine. 12 issues colored photographic wrappers stapled. Carlisle MA: EJAG Publications 1980.<br/><br/> Fine with address labels on back cover.<br/><br/> EJAG unknown books
1981284899Carlyle: EJAG 1981. paperback. near fine. 12 issues colored photographic wrappers stapled. Carlisle MA: EJAG Publications 1981.<br/><br/> Fine with address labels on back cover.<br/><br/> EJAG unknown books
1982284896Carlyle: EJAG 1982. paperback. very good. 12 issues colored photographic wrappers stapled. Carlisle MA: EJAG Publications 1982.<br/><br/> Fine with address labels on back cover.<br/><br/> EJAG unknown books
1934151365Pompton Lakes NJ: Chivers Motor Company 1934. Original flyer for a remote radio-controlled Ford Motors automobile event sponsored in Pompton Lakes New Jersey on August 16 1934.<br/><br/>The event was sponsored by the Chivers Motor Company featuring three Ford cars operated from a distance on the grounds of a local high school. "Magic car" or "phantom auto" shows became popular in the 1930s and 1940s and were often used to promote car companies or demonstrate road safety. Radio engineers would follow behind the car in a second vehicle or in some cases in a low-flying airplane and control the brakes steering wheel and horn using a morse key and spherical antennae attached to the car. <br/><br/>9 x 12 inches. Mimeograph duplication. Very Good plus with short closed tears to the left and right edges. Chivers Motor Company unknown books
1968149422N.p.: N.p. 1968. Archive of 48 vintage photographs of car accidents scenes in the Columbia County New York area from the years 1961-1965 1966 and 1968. With the stamp of Lee's Studio in Chatham NY on the verso of the majority of photographs along with occasional holograph annotations. Most photographs housed in sleeves with annotations detailing dates locations and occasionally noting whether or not the accident was fatal. <br/><br/>Also included are several accident reports prepared by Lee Studios for internal use and correspondence between Lee and law firms representing people involved in the accidents requesting copies of photographs. <br/><br/>The 1960s saw large increases in the number of vehicle fatalities as car ownership greatly increased over the previous decades and out of the six years documented in the archive 1966 and 1968 are both among the ten deadliest in US history. <br/><br/>Photographs variously sized with most being 10 x 8 inches. Generally Near Fine. Housed in a contemporary photo album and two folders. N.p. unknown books
191242011Jackson Michigan: Cutting Motor Car Co 1912. 1st printing. Blue paper wrappers with embossed gold & white 'Cutting' logo to front wrapper stapled. Front wrapper with "Jesco Electric Starting Device' leaflet affixed to verso. Minor wear to wrappers. Center bifolium detached. Very Good. 23 1 pages. Illustrated with 20 figures of the company automobiles & their divers parts e.g. Transmission and Clutch. 10" x 5" <br/><br/>A rare promotional brochure from the Cutting Motor Car Company which only existed from 1911-12. The Cutting was a powerful automobile using engines from Milwaukee Model and Wisconsin ranging from 30-60 hp. Cuttings were entered into the Indianapolis 500 in 1911 & 1912. The company failed in 1912 due to lack of sufficient capital. Wiki. Herein are featured Models A-40 & B-40 both with 40hp motors. No copies found on OCLC. Cutting Motor Car Co unknown books
191241984Chicopee Falls Mass: Stevens-Duryea Company 1912. 1st printing. OCLC records no institutional holdings. Orange & gold decorative wrappers with brown cord tie. Wrappers beginning to separate along spine text block detached. An About VG copy. 23 1 pp. 9 b/w images of the divers models offered. 9-3/4" x 5-3/4" <br/><br/>A rare promotional brochure from this short-lived early 20th C. automobile manufacturer. Stevens-Duryea Company unknown books
49195New York: Jaguar Cars Inc n. d. 1st printing ca 1961. Printed glossy white paper wrappers stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Very minor wear & soiling. A VG copy of an uncommon item. Unpaginated though 12 pp. 12 color images of 3 models of Jaguar. Oblong format: 3-7/8" x 8" <br/><br/>The brochure features 3 from the Jaguar line: the Jaguar Mark X Sedan the 3.8 Sedan and their newly introduced sports car the Jaguar XK-E Roadster & Jaguar XK-E Coupe. Jaguar Cars Inc unknown books
191542016Racine Wisconsin: Mitchell-Lewis Motor Co 1915. 1st printing. Two tone brown paper wrappers printed in dark blue stapled. Wrappers age-toned & show some soiling. Evidence of damping in lower right quadrant & along the lower gutter. Dealership stamps Wm T. Knauss & Son to front wrapper & to internal pages. Withal a VG copy. 48 pp. Illustrated throughout with images of the company's vehicles as well as divers parts used therein. 11" x 7-7/8" <br/><br/>Mitchell-Lewis Motor Company was founded in 1900 in Racine Wisconsin as a motorcycle maker spin-off from the wagon maker Mitchell & Lewis Company Ltd. The company began manufacturing automobiles in 1903. The wagon business and auto companies were combined into Mitchell-Lewis Motor Co. in 1910. The Mitchell car brand produced automobiles from 1903 to 1923. Mitchell offered four- six- and eight-cylinder models. The company was known for large fashionable touring cars. Wiki This a rare promotional brochure from this relatively short-lived early 20th C. automobile manufacturer. No copies located on OCLC. Mitchell-Lewis Motor Co unknown books
190841991East Moline Illinois: Moline Automobile Company 1908. 1st printing. OCLC records no institutional holdings. Printed grey paper wrappers stapled. Light wear. A Nr Fine copy. 19 1 blank pp. 7 illustrations of the 3 Moline automobiles the Model "A" the Model "S" & the Model "H". 9" x 6" <br/><br/>An early & rare promotional brochure from this short-lived 1904 - 1919 early 20th C. automobile manufacturer. Moline Automobile Company unknown books
