Automobile Company of America
This four-page advertisement appeared in Cosmopolitan Magazine in July 1899. It is the first attempt to market the Stanley automobile by its New York buyers, who owned Cosmopolitan Magazine.
For details, see Kit Foster's book, The Stanley Steamer: America's Legendary Steam Car.
If you don't own a copy of Foster's book, buy one from the Stanley Museum.
Cosmopolitan Magazine in July 1899
This is a single-page version of the July 1899 Cosmopolitan Magazine. Unhappily, it was not only trimmed, but its source was lost. Ca: 1899 - 1900.
Unhappily for the buyers of the Stanley vehicle, the name Automobile Company of America was already taken, hence they were forced to change their name to the Locomobile Company of America. Here is an advertisement for the "real" Automobile Company of America from February 1901.
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