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Published by American Technical Society, Chicago, 1918
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Illustrated with 1500 engravings (illustrator). 5th or later Edition. 1918 octavo in limp black leather boards. "Starters, Ford Types, Battery Care, Motorcycles, Welding." Listed first among the "Authorities Consulted" is "Charles E. Duryea, First Vice-Presdient, American Motor League," with no acknowledgment that Duryea and his brother Frank designed, built, and road tested the first American gasoline-powered automobile, in Chicopee and then in Springfield, Mass., in the autumn of 1893. Pages numbered 443 through 755, then "Motorcycles" pp. 1-74, then "Oxy-Acetyklene Welding Practice" pp. 1-102, then Index numbered pp. 1-12, to conclude at page numbered 522. Reduced from $14.