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1905 Hand Book of Gasoline Automobiles - Buick Olds Packard Peerless Studebaker

Price $65.00 $52.00 Details W: 5.5 x H: 8 x D: 0.5 Weight 0.81 lbs. Page Count 120+ Condition Used Original - Fair Item Type Promotional Material Inventory Number MEM-38216
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Description

1905 Hand Book of Gasoline Automobiles. For the information of the public who are interested in their manufacture and use. Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers. Copyright 1905.

Second Annual Announcement. This Hand Book, like its predecessor, is issued primarily for the convenience and information of the prospective purchaser of an automobile. The successful results which attended the initial issue for 1904 have fully justified the Hand Book in its present standardized form as a permanent publication.

Unused Catalogue Request Forms at the back.

Condition: At least one page has come detached. Pages have pulled away from the spine. Page 50 has ~1 in tear about 2/3 the way up the page on the left.

Did you know?

You might notice a big name of the time missing from the list. Ford.

The Hand Book references patent No 549,160 which was granted to George Baldwin Selden in 1895, and the Electric Vehicle Company subsequently purchased the rights to in 1899. The Patent was basically used to bilk money from gasoline automobile makers by having them pay patent fees and threatening patent infringement suits if they did not.

Ford disagreed with the legitimacy of the Patent and as such Selden and the Electric Vehicle Company sued Ford Motor Company for patent infringement in 1903. The case continued until 1911. The patent was already set to expire in 1912. Some patent reform came about as a result of the suit.

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