1916-1918 Stanley Motor Carriage Company Steam Car Brochure Correspondence Lot
This is an eleven piece lot of original antique promotional sales literature and correspondence from the Stanley Motor Carriage Company of Newton, Massachusetts. All items are dated 1916 or 1917 with one letter dated February 1918. This lot includes the following items:
An illustrated catalog of 20 pages plus the covers measuring about 10.5” x 8.5” of which the title page reads:
STANLEY STEAM CARS Announcement for the Season of 1916 Nineteenth Year – Stanley Motor Carriage Company, Newton, Massachusetts
This catalog features the Stanley Steam Car models 725 Touring Car, 726 Roadster, 727 Delivery Wagon, 825 Mountain Wagon and 825 Express Wagon. This unpaginated catalog is fully complete but the centerfold pages 7 to 14 detached at the staple binding and are laid neatly back in without damage.
Also included is a small undated c.1916 foldout brochure titled A Power Plant Standardized One Hundred Years Ago, a c.1916 booklet titled A Discussion About the Steam Car – Some straight-talk letters reprinted from the Scientific American and a full page offprint of a Stanley Motor Carriage Co, advertisement that appeared in the October 25, 1916 issue of Motor World magazine.
Also included with these pieces of Stanley sales literature are seven typed letters including six letters on the letterhead of the Stanley Motor Carriage Company’s Philadelphia office dated between January 9 and October 17, 1917 and one letter on the letterhead of the Stanley Motor Carriage Company Works and General Offices of Newton, Massachusetts dated February 16, 1918. These letters are sent to a prospective buyer and have good content generally touting the features and advantages of Stanley Steam Cars. One letter is two pages and the others are all a single page. All letters are fully complete and in excellent condition and are the letters only without envelopes. The letters from the Stanley Motor Carriage Company’s Philadelphia office are all signed including three signed by Manager J.A. Wright. The 1918 letter sent from the Newton office is an unsigned form letter announcing the arrival of the 1918 Stanley models.