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18876832Providence R.I.: the company; Geo. F. Chapman Printers 27 Pine Street 1887. Bi-fold handbill 21.5 x 15 cm. 8 pages plus folded broadside. Illustrated. A small trade catalogue promoting barrel trucks wheeled racks which hold barrels and allow them to be moved around a warehouse or shop. Illustrated with two full-page images interior scenes of a "wholesale liquor store" and of a "retail grocery" each showing the barrel trucks in use. The broadside folded inside is a list of first-year purchasers of the "1665 Barrel Truck" and is torn at the edges. The handbill itself is fine clean and bright. Unrecorded. OCLC locates no copies. the company; Geo. F. Chapman, Printers, 27 Pine Street unknown books
1870D11847c. 1870-1920. Hardcover. Very Good. This collection includes 1 a family photo album depicting Selden circa 1885; 2 a carte-de-visite of Selden circa 1871; 3 three handsome mounted albumen photographs circa 1910 presumably depicting Selden cars; 4 a later photograph of a Selden motor truck; 5 a photostat copy of a legal illustration "Comparative Scale Drawings of Selden Vehicle"; and 6 a 1920 company pamphlet titled "Yesterday Today Tomorrow." The photo album 1 contains 18 cartes-de-visite showing men women and children identified by name in a contemporary hand in ink; family names include Woodruff Tomlinson Sayre Drake Rogers and -- of course -- Seldon. The single carte-de-visite of Seldon 2 was taken by O. F. Weaver of Chicago; a handwritten notation on the verso indicates that it was taken in 1871 as the fire of October 8 1870 "closed his business venture barrel hoop machinery." The mounted albumen photos 3 range in size from 5.75x7.5 to about 7.5x9.5 inches in excellent condition on heavy dark grey mounts with wide margins; showing a couple or a group of gents in Selden cars; it is charminging to see onlookers peering from the windows of the building in the background. A single photograph c. 1915 6.5x4 inches shows a Selden motor truck 4 loaded with Brass Goods from Henry Wray and Sons. Photostat copy 5 of a legal illustration 18.5x7.5 inches with flattened creases from folding and a little smudging shows comparative scale drawings of Selden Vehicle with 2 H. P. Engine of Selden and of Brayton Otto Otto-Langen and Lenoir; showing single- and 3-cylinder engines and listing the weight speed and horsepower of the engine. The company pamphlet 6 offers of 4 different Selden trucks plus text. <br/><br/>George Baldwin Selden 1846-1922 invented an early lightweight combustion engine intended for use in a four-wheeled vehicle and applied for a patent in 1879. This gives him some claim to be the inventor of the automobile. The patent went through years of legal challenges before being granted in 1895 and then faced further decades of lawsuits from Henry Ford and others eventually suffering defeat in 1911. In the meantime he launched the Selden Motor Vehicle Company in 1905 moving into truck manufacture after his patent defeat. Selden trucks are shown in the aformentioned pamphlet "Yesterday Today Tomorrow." hardcover books
192549939New York: Mack Trucks Inc. The International Motor Company 1925. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket issued. New York: Mack Trucks Inc. The International Motor Company 1925. Numerous b/w photographs illustrations and charts. 268 pp. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth. Gilt lettering to spine and front board. Head heel and corners bumped and rubbed heel lightly worn; former industrial number to spine. Interior clean and sound. Very good/No jacket issued. Mack Trucks, Inc., The International Motor Company hardcover books
