Word: clymer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...CLYMER, JASO, she's LOYNDE on DIGRANDE. She's TAYLOR-made. Is CHIPOURAS a church mouse...
...Koates Bradlee, but if we tighten our Dorset we'll Clymer over them and Quinn." Harvard 28 Cornell...
Because he has always intensely loved them, Floyd Clymer knows primitive automobiles, motorcycles and their labyrinthine lore as a classical scholar knows the conflicting texts of Manilius. Clymer has always salted down automotive data and keepsakes. In his office files are scores of automobile articles, thousands of automobile advertisements, which he saved from old magazines like Horseless Age and Ainslee's Advertiser...
...Ecstasies. Fussing around affectionately among these memories, it one day occurred to Floyd Clymer that other people might enjoy them too. So he began to paste them together to make his book. In it the automobile evolution is traceable in illustrations of 250 cars and motorcycles, mostly dating from 1902 to the early '20s. Many of the illustrations are photographs, made by cameras whose eyes had not lost their innocence. Many others are drawings, some as stripped and lucid as blueprints. Others blend the clean precisions of semimechanical drawing with proud, naive little achievements that catch the shine...
...Editor Clymer has scarcely begun to revive memories of the 2,200 makes of car (including So steamers) which once competed for space in U.S. garages. But a second "interesting . . . educational . . . surprising . . . comical" book is due next August, a third, devoted entirely to steamers, in October...