Original 1912 Catalog ALCO MOTOR CARS American Locomotive Company SCARCE

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ALCO MOTOR CARS
1912
(Original Catalog/Brochure)
New York: American Locomotive Company,  (1912).
Softcover string-bound wrappers with small pictorial image on front cover, size is   8" x 11".
Condition for this softcover catalog/brochure is very good+  a bit of light  soiling around the edges of the front and back covers, with some edge wear, a  bit of wear to corners and spine ends. A nice example of a scarce catalog.
31 pages with illustrations.
A scarce original catalog from 1912  f0r the American Locomotive Company automobiles.
"The American Locomotive Company (ALCO) was a manufacturer of locomotives,  diesel generators, steel, and tanks from 1901 to 1969...
The company diversified into the automobile business in 1906, producing French  Berliet designs under license. Production was located at Alco's Rhode Island  Locomotive Works in Providence, Rhode Island. Two years later, the Berliet  license was abandoned, and the company began to produce its own designs instead.  An Alco racing car won the Vanderbilt Cup in both 1909 and 1910 and competed in  the first Indianapolis 500 in 1911, driven on all three occasions by Harry  Grant.
ALCO's automotive venture was unprofitable, and they abandoned automobile  manufacture in 1913. The Alco automobile story is notable chiefly as a step in  the automotive career of Walter P. Chrysler, who worked as the plant manager. In  1911 he left Alco for Buick in Detroit, Michigan, where he subsequently founded  the Chrysler Corporation in 1925." [Wikipedia]
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