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Research Project
« on: October 20, 2022, 10:18:58 AM »
I'm currently working on scanning issues of AUTOMOTIVE NEWS magazine, a trade paper aimed at automobile dealers (mainly new car dealers) that's been around since the 1920's.  The years I am interested run from 1940 to 1957 and so far I've finished 1945, 1941 and currently working on 1942.  The publication is covering events at Kaiser-Frazer as well as the comings and goings of various K-F and Willys dealers that submitted items for the publication.  Drawback is that the source is material put on microfilm so pictures (at least on the "original") are not good quality.  I will work on that once the issues (it came out weekly and usually 30-40 pages an issue, sometimes as many as 72 pages) get put into the computer.

A lot of good historical information can be found in these things.   You can also find the link to the archive on CIRCLEKF.COM.

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Re: Research Project
« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2022, 12:39:06 PM »
Lots of interesting articles in this tabloid.

We just finished extracting the K-F-W Articles printed in 1952.

Great Stuff ... Chase this link to read the articles yourself.

https://circlekf.com/share_sources.php?dp=publicity&yr=1952&pub=all&typ=npa&reg=all&mg=all&action=list_sources
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Re: Research Project
« Reply #2 on: October 20, 2022, 12:40:09 PM »
Great stuff. Thanks to both of you for making it available!
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Re: Research Project
« Reply #3 on: October 20, 2022, 12:51:58 PM »
Thanks for the Kudo Fid!

Here is the link where all the Automotive News are Archived Online.

You can limit to a YEAR and then search for topic.
 
Or Download the Scanned issue.  It seems all issues are there.  Jack is correct some of them are a bit fuzzy but they appear to be all there ... all 500 plus issues for our 10 year run.

https://archive.org/details/pub_automotive-news
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