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1908 Hand Book of Gasoline Automobiles - Buick Olds Packard Peerless Studebaker

Price $65.00 $52.00 Details W: 5.5 x H: 8 x D: 0.625 Weight 0.94 lbs. Page Count 120+ Condition Used Original - Good Item Type Promotional Material Inventory Number MEM-38229
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Description

1908 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 1908.

Fifth Annual Announcement. The Hand Book of Gasoline Automobiles is issued annually by the Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers in the interes of its members who are the leading American manufacturers of gasoline cars, their dealers and those interested in the purchase of a high-grade automobile. It has definitely taken its place as a permanent annual publication, and is the accepted standard authority on the subject with which it deals. In its illustrations and specifications are fully and correctly described the product of the leading American manufacturers of automobiles, as well as representing the leading importers of gasoline cars which are licensed under the Selden patent.

Good condition for its age with minor wear and discoloration [see photos]. Spine is weak.

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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