When I was in my early teens I found a late 1910 Cycle and Automobile Trade Journal in an abandoned house. How many of you have heard of a Crawford built in Hagerstown, Md. or of the Beilfuss Motor Co. of Lansing, Mi.? If you know about those how about Enger Motor Car Co. of Cincinati, Oh. or the Bailey Electric Victoria built in Amesbury, Ma.? There were bodies built of aluminum, steel or wood by the Brandt & Johnson Auto Supply Co. of Columbus, Oh. Included were not only cars but trucks, airplanes, motor cycles, accessories and carriages including horse drawn hearses listed. This book had been lost to me for many years as my father had loaned it to someone who in turn loaned it again etc. When visiting another person about a year or so ago I saw it there as someone had loaned it to him. The only way I could definately say it was the same book is that it had some of my homework on mimeograph paper in it. So now more than fifty years later.
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