Re: Steam Car Literature Question - Model 735
Posted by:
H J Merrick (IP Logged)
Date: October 17, 2006 03:42PM
Don,
We have a SACA reprint of this price list, measuring 9 x 6" with an original imprint date of October 25, 1919 ("W.L. & Pub. Co."). The cover is stamped with the SACA logo and bears a reprint date of Jan. 1965. However, I found another copy in our SACA reprint files which doesn't have a front cover, and is trimmed down to 8 5/16 x 5 7/16", and there is no reprint information on it. You might want to ask the SACA storeroom folks if they ever reprinted this price list (their stockroom number 120) twice (perhaps they switched printers?) because that's what it looks like.
In the Stanley Museum archives we have what looks to be an original 1919 price list, but it, too, is missing its cover, and it measures 8 1/2 x 5 1/2". We also have an original Model 735 1918 price list, dated October 15, 1918, which measures 9 x 5 7/8" - the "1918" is part of the title on the cover and the front page. From what I can tell, the 1919 version is identical, except they removed the "1918" and left the title without a date.
I don't think Clymer Motors issued a reprint of this price list, as I don't find it listed in their literature. Floyd Clymer seems to have focused on reprinting Stanley literature with illustrations, and as you point out, this price list is simply text.
Jim Merrick