Kaiser Frazer Owners Club Forum
General Category => Collector's Corner => Topic started by: kaiserfrazerlibrary on October 20, 2022, 10:18:58 AM
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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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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®=all&mg=all&action=list_sources (https://circlekf.com/share_sources.php?dp=publicity&yr=1952&pub=all&typ=npa®=all&mg=all&action=list_sources)
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Great stuff. Thanks to both of you for making it available!
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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 (https://archive.org/details/pub_automotive-news)