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195058 pages. Features: Madam Queen - Missouri Pacific Lines - article with photos; $2 million investment in the new Powhatan Arrow by Norfolk & Western - article with photos; San Francisco's Belt Line; Passengers and Trailer Trucks ride the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad - article with map and photos; Photo Section including nice centerfold photo of St. Louis - San Francisco's train No. 409 steaming across Oklahoma; Welded Rail - Continuous Rail promises to be worth the investment - article with photos; The Wandering West Penn - a trip on the pastoral electric line - article with map and nice photos; Southern Pacific innovative photo feature; Archival photos of early days on the Soo Line; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1987533 pages. "Expert service information. More than 1,000 photos and illustrations. Full maintenance and troubleshooting data. Complete teardown and overhaul procedures." - from front cover. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding sound. A quality working copy. Book
2004réf. 118338Pepperpot Productions. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2004. Hardcover. A book that looks almost new; ; 270 pages; Signed by Author . Pepperpot Productions hardcover
2004réf. 33300Pepperpot Productions 2004-01-01. Hardcover. New. Number 76 of a limited 100 signed copies. Brand New Hardcover Book Crisp and Clean. Pepperpot Productions hardcover
1969réf. 62996Grosse Pointe Farms MI: Verbiest Publishing Company; Chevrolet Motor Division General Motors Corp. 1969. Oblong 4to. 12 x 8.5 in. 2 170 pp. With 100’s of illustrations photos diagrams some leaves printed on yellow paper stock w/ thumb tabs at fore-edge introductory leaf printed TLS from Henry on Chevrolet company letterhead. Colour-illustrated softcovers plastic comb-binding as issued minor shelfwear slight scuffing still VG bright copy. First edition of this scarce and invaluable Chevrolet Dealer guide for special bodies and equipment on the highly desirable and iconic 1969 Chevy C10 pickup and Suburban platform along with extensive advertisers and suppliers information on heavy truck bodies and modifications. The extended opening section Chevy C10 includes builders and suppliers for Campers Motor Home and Van conversions trailers from such famed companies in Michigan Washington Oregon Kansas Indiana Florida and California as Wolverine Campter Co. Open Road Campers Chinook Mobilodge Co. ChevVan Motorhome Turtle Topp Chevrolet Travel Cruiser and Gem Top camper shells. Extended sections on ambulances and rescue vans school buses and school vans food truckstep vans fire engines are all featured. Verbiest 1926-2018 was originally a mortgage banker and sales agent for insurance company before founding Verbiest Publishing in the 1960’s and contracting with Chevrolet Motor Division. No copies in Worldcat. Verbiest Publishing Company; Chevrolet Motor Division, General Motors Corp.], paperback
1990No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, single crease to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 213pp. Book one of the mini company histories of forty-eight American trucking companies, celebrating 100 years of existence since the first firms were set up in 1890. These were mostly the small companies who led the way with trade and transport across North America. Each mini history is accompanied by at least one full-page image of one of their trucks. Extremely scarce in the UK.
1916réf. 62233Grand Rapids MI: United Motors Co. Etheridge Printers ca. 1916. Oblong 8vo. 9.25 x 6.25 in. 12 pp. printed in blue & black. Tan-coloured illustrated softcovers cover art of United Motors truck in blue black & tan front cover yapp fore-edges minor soiling to far right fore-edge slight shelfwear still VG copy. First edition of this very scarce dealer’s showroom catalogue for the pre-World War I United Motors Co. filled with factory photos advertising their innovative 6-ton tractor and semi-trailer configurations as considerable cost savings. For 2/3 of the cost of a 5-ton truck the retailer shipper etc. could field a tractor and trailer for less than $ 3300.00. Founded originally as the United Motor Trucks Co. before World War I as a division of the United Light & Railways Co. conglomerate to not only produce trucks and utility vehicles for their own needs but to meet burgeoning demand brought on by improving roads and fast-growing commercial demands before and after World War I. By 1922 Hulswit Kanary and Eckburg were building and selling United Trucks powered by a four-cylinder Continental Engine the lightest model featuring a worm drive and the others often fitted still with chain drives moving to shaft drive and by 1925 would be manufacturing what they called the “Highway Special.” Hulswit 1875-1933 was the president and organizer of the United Light & Railways Co. which held 13 railroad and public service gas & electric utilities and corporations in five states and was forced out of his company in 1926. By that time Kanary had decamped to Hollywood California and the truck manufacturing unit was spun off to ACME Motor Truck Co. of Cadillac MI which continued the badge for a short time. Advertisements for their truck line cease by 1928. Very few of the original company catalogues survive some business records and material can be found in the Austin Automobile Co. Collection Grand Rapids Library Special Collects. Finding Aid May 10 2018; See: Mroz American Cars Trucks & Motorcycles of World War I pp. 365-366; United Trucks Grand Rapids Spectator Vol. 11 Feb. 1922 pp. 17; Buys United Motor The Indianapolis Star Dec. 12 1926 p. 71. United Motors Co., Etheridge Printers, paperback
1993Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 211pp. Book three of the mini company histories of thirty-one American trucking companies, celebrating 100 years of existence since the first firms were set up in 1890 - the small companies who led the way with trade and transport across North America. Each mini history is accompanied by at least one full-page image of one of their trucks. Extremely scarce.
1991No marks or inscriptions. Reading crease to front cover and crease to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 237pp. Book two of the mini company histories of thirty-five American trucking companies, celebrating 100 years of existence since the first firms were set up in 1890. This volume concentrates mainly on the 1950s and 1960 for the small companies who led the way with trade and transport across North America. Each mini history is accompanied by at least one full-page image of one of their trucks. Extremely scarce in the UK.
1975Flexible ring-bound advertising publication in slip-case. No marks or inscriptions and no creasing to covers. A very clean copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Matt black slip case bumped at corners. 20pp. Lavish publicity brochure of Foden, its history, its products, its centres and an offer to visit the Sandbach Works. Overlay depictions of stages of truck construction. With large fold-out of their 1970s products. Includes a seven inch single of the Foden Motor Woks Band playing 'March - the Buccaneer' in sleeve in pocket - appears in perfect condition. Very scarce.
193796 pages. Index of advertisers. Features: Cover photo of the vessel 'Orient City' fully loaded with lumber; Two-color ad for Broderick yellow-strand wire rope inside front cover; Nicely logging-theme illustrated Timken bearing full-page ad; American Tiger Brand Wire Rope ad features great photo (circa 1885) of steam (bull) donkey and many loggers; R.G. LeTourneau ad features photo of their bulldozer and a Willamette-Hyster arch at work; Full-page two-color photo ad for Caterpillar features A.E. Baker of Fruit Growers Supply, Susanville, CA; Durable Douglas Fir Cross Arms used on telephone poles by the British Columbia Telephone Company - article with photo; Hand Methods Must Give Way to Mechanization in Eastern Canada - article; Photos of sawmill scenes in Sweden and Finland; Novel Effects in Wood at Paris Exposition - article with photos; Unique Power Plant of Vancouver Island Lumber Operation - Nootka Wood Products, Ltd. mill at Port Tasis (Tahsis) is driven by wood gas - article with photos - including photo of John P. Blenkinsop and Harry Smith and another photo of plant manager Lute D. Rogers with George M. Cornwall of this publication; Fantastic two-page two-color illustrated ad for the Ross Lumber Carrier, Model 90; S.A. Woods Machine Company ad features their new 412 planer and matcher; Magnificent full-page ad for Disston precision ground cross-cut saws includes photos of fallers at work with this two-man saw; Distinct saving shown to be possible with two-man bucking crews - article; Plywood's outdoor uses are increasing - photo-illustrated article; Meeting of the Wooden Box Association at San Francisco; Mark Markkula and his logging Bunks and Chunks - article with photos of products and Mr. Markkula; Nicely illustrated one-page ad for Hercules Engines of Canton, Ohio; Logging in Tillamook - article with photos; Super one-page photo ad for Feenaughty Machinery Co.'s FWD trucks - with photo showing a massive load being hauled; Nice truck-logging themed photo ad for Waukesha engines; Awesome photos of Allis-Chalmers tractors at work for the Big Lakes Box Company in Klamath Basin; Fantastic full-page ad with photos of the Washington Diesel Yarder made by Washington Iron Works; Crazy photo of trucks driving 132' logs across the Bloedel Donovan Lumber Mills' narrow old logging bridge above Skykomish, WA; Photo of a Dow low stump power saw at work; Small illustrated ad for P. Sharkey & Son Horse Collars; Photo of an FWD truck at work for Mr. W.S. Jeans of Culp Creek, OR; Superheaters - their use on Donkeys and Locomotives - article; Oriental strife affects Pacific Lumber Trade - article; France decides between steel and wood rail cars; Foreign Lumber Fleet - list of lumber vessels visiting Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia - and their capacities; Three Bamfiled, B.C. photos accompany brief article about Pacific Cable and Wireless, Ltd. and their cable which extends from Bamfield to New Zealand; Photo of G.L. Graiff with redwood charcoal experimental wood gas-powered truck - Hammond Redwood Co. of Samoa, CA; Reunion of pioneer members of the Southwestern Washington Lumber Manufacturers Association - with photos of T.H. MacLafferty, C.A. Doty, Charles Gilchrist, W.C. Miles, Jerry Startup, S.S. Somerville; Obituary of August K. Berter; Nice illustrated ad for the Warren Axe and Tool Co. of Warren, PA.; and more. Unmarked. Above-average but not excessive wear. Chips missing from backstrip. Binding intact. A rare surviving issue of this highly informative vintage lumber periodical. Magazine
2006réf. DADAX1578602629Clerisy Press Emmis Books 2006-02-01. paperback. New. 5.25x0.75x7.25. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Clerisy Press, Emmis Books paperback
1962Features: Good-bye to Golf - Arthur W. Baum, a reformed addict, exposes the evils of an over-rated game; The Mood of America - Stewart Alsop surveys voter opinion from coast to coast; Haute Mode for Little Girls - nice color photos - top designers are creating elegant new wardrobes with fancy price tags for the grade-school set; Facing up to Automation, by John Diebold; Great color ad for the '63 Chevrolet trucks in rough Baja scenes; My Life with Juvenile Gangs (part 2 of 3) - Vincent Riccio; Churches Take up Show Business - using plays and musicales to relate religion to contemporary life; "Be a Champ, Act a Champ - Sonny Liston goes after the heavyweight boxing title next week"; At Home with 'Hazel' (Shirley Booth); Hope for Retarded Children - how the Kennedy family's own misfortune spurred the fight against a widely misunderstood affliction. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
1948196 pages. Features: Color ad for Kelvinator appliances inside front cover; Nice color 1-page ad for White Trucks features bakery scene; Nice color half-page ad for Bostitch Staplers features romantic cartoon; Vintage full-page two-color ad for Porter-Cable power tools; Very nice half-page color ad for Hires Root Beer shows girls' sleepover scene; Nice 1-page color Packard ad shows crosswalk scene; Photo of Cameron Shipp; Photo of Val Teal and two of her sons; 1-page color ad for Buxton wallets; Nice 1-page color ad for General Tire shows crowded football stadium; Murder for Millions (fiction); Allah's Oil (part 1) - a photo illustrated examination of what the US is doing to get its share of mid-east oil; Stage from Elkhorn (fiction); Color-photo illustrated feature article on Lexington, Kentucky; Holiday for Mother (fiction); The Europeans You Never Heard About - photo-illustrated article wherein Stewart Alsop presents a refreshing cast of characters; Football's Biggest Bargain - article and photos of Oregon's Willamette University; They Fight the Cold War Under Cover - photo-illustrated article presents the story of what our new cloak-and-dagger outfit the CIA, is doing to keep our secrets - and learn the secrets of other nations - with photof of the Director, Rear Admiral R.H. Hillenkoetter; A Husband's Rights (fiction); Iwo Jima Cost Too Much - part 3 of 'Howlin' Mad's Own Story - General Holland M. Smith asserts that naval 'expediency' needlessly increased our losses - with photos; In Quest of Peril (fiction); Baby Sitting is Big Business Now - photo illustrated article on this $750 million dollar business; The Land Where Whoppers Come - article and color photos on the Jan Joaquin Valley; The Parmelees - photo-illustrated article which tells the story of the Yankee family of Ernest Parmelee; Lovely color 1-page Campbell's Tomato Soup ad; Our Next Magic Metal? - photo-illustrated article on Titanium; Dishonored (fiction); 1-page color-photo Christmas ad for General Electric (GE) Electric Clocks; Nice color 1-page Pontiac ad features the DeLuxe Streamliner 2-Door Sedan and DeLuxe Streamliner 4-Door Sedan; 2-page ad for Philco entertainment products; Nice 1-page color ad for Birds Eye sliced peaches; Interesteing Smith-Corona ad includes photo of ladies assembling adding machines in their Groton, NY plant; Color 1-page ad for Mercury cars; Two-page color ad for Heinz Soups; Nice color 1-page ad for RCA Victor radios; Interesting photo-illustrated one-page ad for Aspirin includes photo of the new Bayer plant in Trenton, NJ; Color 1-page photo ad for Koroseal luggage shows black porter scrambling to pick up scattered luggage at curb; Fantastic color 2-page ad for Nash cars; Super color-photo 1-page ad for International Harvester industrial power features clear photo of a large diesel crawler dragging logs; Very nostalgic Boeing 1-page photo ad features close-up photo of a Stratocruiser on runway; Jeris Hair Tonic ad features photo of John Garfield; Armstrong's Industrial Insulations 1-page color ad features intriguing cut-away drawing of busy food terminal to illustrate the many applications of their products; Nice 1-page color ad for Wilson's Hams; *Gorgeous* 2-page color ad for the 1949 Buicks; Elsie the Cow is featured in a 1-page color ad for Borden's Cheeses; Nice 1-page ad for United Air Lines features photo portrait of Captain R.T. Freng; 2-page 2-color ad for U.S. Royal Tires; Esquire Socks 1-page color ad features beautiful ladies; Nice 1-page color ad for Westinghouse electric ranges; Uncommon 1-page ad for Columbia's new Long Playing Microgroove records which can play 45 minutes of music on a single record; 1-page ad for Anco 'Spot-Master' rear-view mirrors; Uncommon one-page ad for the new 1949 Green Renault car from France; Nice 1-page color ad for Ritz Crackers features Canapes; Harvey Marlowe of WPIX is featured in an ad for Edgeworth Pipe Tobacco; 1-page ad for Magnavox entertainment products; Excellent colo Magazine
1963Features: A vote against motherhood - Gael Greene; Danger from Within - Dwight D. Eisenhower writes that Indolence and lack of moral principle present a greater threat to America than the armed might of Communism; Perils of Pauline - America's highest-paid femail TV commentator, Pauline Frederick, fights skeptical bosses, prettier rivals and video's glamour code; "We Sailed the Columbus Ship" - Robert Marx relates how nine men in a forty-two foot boat braved wind and wave to recreate the first conquest of the Atlantic - many colour photos; Golf-Ball Goof - retrieving lost golf balls; Last Stop Alcatraz - Mickey Cohen and the inside story of how Federal agents put him behind iron bars at long last; Ice Hockey's Geriatric Marvel - 38 year of age, going on 45, goalie Johnny Bower of the Toronto Maple Leafs seems to have found the secret of perennial youth; Nuclear-age School - New Mexico students pursue knowledge under a 21 inch concrete slab in Artesia, New Mexico - Abo Public Elementary School is the only one in the nation underground - it doubles as a fully equipped fallout shelter; Black Merchants of Hate - fanatic and well-disciplined, Negro 'Muslims' threaten to turn resentment against racial discrimination into open rebellion - photo of Malcolm X. Nice colour Pepsi ad on back cover. Great two-page colour ad for Chevrolet trucks. Nice full-page ad for a blue 1963 Dodge Wagon; Colour Ford Auto centerfold features the Fairlane. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
196088 pages. Short Stories: Rigged Race; Not Her Kind; The Tailor's Secret; Challenge in the Sky. Novelette: The Hands of Cormac Joyce. Articles: The Difference Between Black and White; Bowling is Booming; The Face of America - Great color photo of digging out from deep snow in Oswego New York; Tales of the Laundry Sleuths - these investigators discover the causes of mystery rips and stains which occasionally plague laundries and irritate customers; Castro, Trujillo and Turmoil - a report from the uneasy, strategic Caribbean, where the Communists are exploiting political unrest to turn Latin Americans against the US - with many photos, including Che Guevara; Our Urban Revolution - Can We Halt the Chaos? (conclusion); Big, Happy Family - The Soldi clan of Italy has 31,000 members; Riddle of the Frozen Giants - what may have killed the prehistoric mammoths. Ads: Calvert Reserve - with sexy lady eating from her partner's toothpick; Dodge Trucks - with push-button transmission; Seven-Up (7up) - one-man-band entertains his lady; Campbell's Soup; Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight (98); Tareyton cigarettes; Colgate toothpaste; U.S. Savings Bonds; Great one-page Budweiser color-photo ad features lady looking over her shoulder; International Trucks; Nice color-photo Coke ad on back cover features debutante being offered Cokes by four young men. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1957116 pages. Fiction: The Second Mrs. Thorpe; The Mysterious Mr. Todd; The Lady Called Brazil; Tornado!; Ambush at Blanco Canyon (part 2 of 4); The Girl From the Mimosa Club (parf 4 of 7); The conclusiong of Doom Cliff. Articles: What Happened to the Magic of Childhood? - They are missing the aimless days we used to know; Alan Ladd - Hollywood's Unlikely Hero - with several photos including Sophia Loren and Marilyn Monroe; The Secrets of Jamestown - extraordinary treasures unearthed during restoration for 350th birthday; How the Israelis Blitzed Nasser's Army - article with photos of Dayan and his men, and other scenes; We Made the "Impossible" Tour - Conclusion - The Land of Fire - three agonizing miles of travel in southern Argentina; The Face of America - Great color photo inside caboose; Incredible New Frontier - Kitimat, British Columbia. Ads: Nostalgic two-page Inco ad explains their developments in the Mystery-Moak Lakes area of northern Manitoba (perhaps the site of modern-day Thompson?); Nice color one-page ad for Heinz Campside beans; Nice two-page photo ad for General Motors highlights Keene, New Hampshire, home of Kingsbury Machine Tool Corporation - with photos of Mayor J. Alfred Dennis, H.T. Kingsbury, Chester L. Kingsbury, Gunnar Swahnberg, Ed Kingsbury, Earl Riley, Jim Riley, and Blair Howe; Nice two-page ad for Westinghouse TVs; Whitman's Chocolates; Campbell's Soup; Fantastic two-page Cadillac ad displays a red Sedan de Ville four-door hartdop; Tareyton; Pontiac; De Soto cars - nice color photo; American Airlines - two-pages in color; 1957 Mercury cars with great color image of a red Colony Park station wagon with new power-lift back window; Cushman Eagle mini-bike; Detroit Diesel - quarry scene in color; Frigidaire clothes washers; Canada tourism; GMC Trucks - the 860 Diesel; Chief Engineer Roebling, the man behind the building of the Brooklyn Bridge, is honored in a U.S. Savings Bond ad; Great vintage National Cash Register (NCR) ad inside back cover - their new register calculates change!. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1931148 pages. Contributors include: Eve Garrette Grady, Wallace Irwin, Sophie Kerr, Paul Jones, Frank Condon, Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, Robert Lansing. Wonderful period advertisements include: Whitman's Chocolates, Sheaffer's Pens, Hart Schaffner & Marx, Campbell's Pork and Beans, La Salle V-8, Oldsmobile, General Electric Refrigerator, Ford Motor Company, Brookfield Butter, Republic Steel, Packard, Willys-Knight (gorgeous 2 page colour ad), Reo-Royale (lovely colour ad), Dutch Boy Paint, White Trucks, Franklin Auto (Colour Ad Featuring Amelia Earhart!), Jantzen Swimwear, DeVaux 6-75, Middishade Clothes, Monarch Foods, RCA Victor Superette. Articles include: Is There Forced Labor in Russia?; When Wilson Failed as Peacemaker, Airport Groundsman, Lion Taming. Average wear. Solid, unmarked copy. Book
1930140 pages. Contributors include: Henry Ford (The Fear of Overproduction), Ben Hecht, Leonard H. Nason, Margaret Culkin Banning, Captain Charles B. Scully, Katherine M. Schmitt, Joseph Hergesheimer. Nice contemporary advertisements from Del Monte, Coke, Camay, Campbell's Soup, Sunbrite Cleanser, Cord Auto, Graham Auto, Dodge Six, Essex Auto, Edison Mazda Lamps, Fordor Sedan (by Ford), Cellophane, Buick, Reo Speed Wagon, Valspar, Northern Pacific Rail Line, White Trucks, McCormick-Deering Industrial Power (*wonderful black and white photographs*), The Knapp-Felt Hat, A&P. Articles include: Why Drown? by Charles Scully, The Story of an Early Switchboard Operator, Tears to periphery of cover otherwise a solid copy with average wear. Book
1930134 pages. Contributors include: Isaac F. Marcosson, Vincent sheean, Nunnally Johnson, Alfredo Codona, Gilbert Patten, Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, Colonel Givens, John H. Doeg. Lovely vintage advertisements from: Whitman's Chocolates, Campbell's Soup, De Soto, Cadillac V-8, GM Radio, Oldsmobile, Ford Auto, Hudson and Essex, Reo-Royale, Willys Cars, Log Cabin Syrop, Auburn Auto, Sparton Radio, Nash Auto, Packard, Franklin Auto, Canada Dry. Articles include: Dime-Novel Days, Gymnasts (The Flying Codonas), Nevada Stories, Tennis as a Career, The Secretary to President Coolidge. Large tear to cover-fold and front cover else average wear. Nice solid copy. Book
1928Lovely period advertisements including Del Monte, Campbell's Soup, Hupmobile, De Soto six, Auburn, Nash 400, Graham-Paige, Hammermill Bond, Hudson Super-six, Plymouth, Dodge Standard Six, Buick (Lovely Colour Centerfold), Oldsmobile, Weyerhauser, Steinway, Cycle Trades of America, A&P, Frigidaire, Pioneer Suspenders, Stewart Trucks, Harley Davidson Package Truck; Pro-phy-lac-tic Toothbrush. Contributors include: Eddie Cantor, Louise Kennedy Mabie, Anne Morgan, Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, Clarence Budington Kelland, Dorothy Black, Leonard H. Nason, Garet Garrett. Average wear. Articles include: The Corn Belt, US Air Mail, The Soul of New York, Bulgarian Visit, Flying the Canadian Frontier. Advertising coupon clipped from back cover. Lower 1/3 of page 61 missing - missing piece contained part of a fictional story and part of a Dupont paint advertisement. Average wear. Solid copy. Book
1969réf. 1131341969 Editions Olyslager Organisation - 1969 - In-8, à l'italienne, cartonnage marron avec titre argenté sur le premier plat et au dos, sous jaquette illustrée en couleurs - 3408 p. - Nombreuses reproductions photographiques en N&B in-texte - Livre en anglais
19748vo., with numerous photographs in the text; original series binding of blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in white, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Observer 40. Printing code: 1338. 1073. Marren & Carter, p.166.
1974réf. 1131331974 Editions Olyslager Organisation - 1974 - In-8, à l'italienne, cartonnage kaki avec titre doré sur le premier plat et au dos, sous jaquette illustrée en couleurs - 378 p. - Nombreuses reproductions photographiques en N&B in-texte - Livre en anglais
1924réf. 64508York PA & Detroit MI: Martin-Parry Corp. Ford Motor Co. 1924. Three pieces. 1st - Oblong 4to. One colour-printed dealer’s showroom display ad printed in yellow & black sized 12.5 x 9.5 in. preserved in original frame w/ glass cleaned & w/ archival foam core; 2nd -- Oblong pen & ink drawing on translucent paper sized 20.5 x 15 in. signed by Weis in lower right corner minor age toning some soiling to left margin preserved in original frame & glass archival foam core backing; 3rd -- Oblong pen & ink drawing on translucent paper sized 29.5 x 15.5 in. Ford logo coloured in red in upper right signed by Weis in lower right corner minor dustsoiling edgewear preserved in original frame & glass backed w/ archival foam core still all VG. These three pieces including original concept drawings for the Martin-Parry Ford De Luxe Depot Woodie as well as the Martin-Parry Fire Engine on a Ford Model TT 1 ton chassis offer vivid examples of an industry in transition as Ford Motor Co. largely moved from outsourcing their commercial and private truck bodies to such body companies as Martin-Parry to in-house after 1925. The splendid De Luxe Depot Woodie wagons featured beautiful varnished side panels roll up canvas shades and in this case the dealer advertisement features the version with center and rear seats while the drawing depicts version without and just side benches in the cutaway. Martin-Parry marketed their bodies as knock-down kits which could be ordered and then assembled in cities across the country with their largest locations on the West Coast including Los Angeles San Francisco Portland OR and Seattle WA where customers could bring in their Ford Model T’s and have them fitted with the special order bodies.Martin-Parry fire engine bodies are notably scarce and were largely unavailable in their catalogues for later assembly. These appear to have been special order items and possibly only available at their Indianapolis IN or York PA factories for installing on the Ford Model TT 1 Ton truck chassis. In 1919 Parry Manufacturing and Martin Truck & Body Corp of York PA decided to merge following World War I and the consolidation was known as the Martin-Parry Corp. with F.M. Small as President and Guy Tripp of Westinghouse Electric as chairman of the board of directors. They specialized in commercial bodies truck bodies and commercial vehicles for Ford Model T and Ford Model TT trucks and would operate independently until they were purchased by Chevrolet Motor Co. in 1930 to produce their truck and commercial cars. See: Martin-Parry Corporation Activities General History; Woody Evolution; Dealer Catalogs 1919-1928 2026. Martin-Parry Corp., Ford Motor Co., unknown
