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Car - Nostalgia

Postcards - Automobiles / Cars
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New Zealand - Hastings - Hawkes Bay - 1914 Period - Scripts Booth Car - David and Sonia Ross of Burnett Rd, Hastings - Real Photo Postcard #320649 - Scripps-Booth was a United States automobile company based in Detroit, Michigan, which produced motor vehicles from 1913 through 1923. - The company was founded by artist and engineer James Scripps Booth (of the Scripps publishing family), who also built the Bi-Autogo. Scripps-Booth company produced vehicles intended for the luxury market. In 1916 they consolidated with the Sterling Motor Company to become the Scripps-Booth Corporation. By this time Scripps-Booth had been purchased by Chevrolet whose founder William C. Durant was also the founding president of Sterling Motor Company. General Motors discontinued the brand name in 1923. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scripps-Booth) Collection Note: The "Safari" Collection of Early Pictorial Postcard Usages formed by the Late Tony Dodd's of Hastings, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand. Over a span of 70 years Tony Traded and corresponded around the world under the Nom De Plume "Safari" Over this period he wrote and contributed to many articles and publications always signed Safari. A collection of over 500 Albums was amassed over a lifetime of eager collecting... One of his passions was the history and local ephemera of Hawkes Bay.

Archival Collection - Wooders

Archival Collection - Wooders

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