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November 2008
1917 Maxwell One Ton Truck - $12,000 / offer.
This is a complete running truck that I inherited from my father in 2007. An operator's manual comes with the truck. This truck has been in Idaho and Utah and covered, so rust is minimal. Many additional close-up pictures at a higher resolution are available. Contact Cara at caralee2be@yahoo.com or (801) 781-0374.
Pictures here.
October 2008 Update
Tom Thoburn once again has provided some scans from the reprint of the 1909 Instruction Manual.
Rick Zenger has prepared and sent pdf (they are large) files of technical books from the the Maxwell Era:
Dykes Manual (313 Mb)
Autocraft (16.9 Mb)
Automobile Engineering (53.4 Mb)
Automotive Ignition Systems (57.9 Mb)
Classroom Lecture Notes (6.9 Mb)
The Automobile Handbook (41.9 Mb)
I added:
Elements of Machine Design (15.8 Mb)
September Update
A request for help:
From Australia, help in finding a stolen radiator:
Please find attached photos of a radiator stolen from a container that was loaded in Hudson NY around May this year. With Hershey coming up I would kindly ask all your readers to email me if they spot this radiator. I believe it was stolen in The USA and will probably show up there eventually. Can you please post this email and photos in the Maxwell Messenger?
Kindest Regards,
Ken Burchill
128 Curramore Road,
Witta
Queensland 4552
Australia.
Ph. 617-54358089.
From last month:
Wanted, photos front and back of 1912 Maxwell Messenger radiator - sketches with measurements would be extremely helpful, also diameter and locations of inlet and outlets, thickness of core etc. I have the shell but will have to get radiator made. Please help! Gary Doty gddoty2@cox.net
A copy of a Model L Parts Price Book dated January 1909 is now posted, courtesy of Linda and Floyd with this story:
The Model L parts book belonged to my grandfather Rev. Leroy C. Mattoon. Unfortunately the page with his signature did not turn out very well. Grandpa bought the runabout model L when he lived in Brandon, Vermont. He was the pastor of a Wesleyan Church Near Brandon and his last child, my dad, was born there in 1912. My dad said Grandpa had this car when he was born and I assume my dad rode in it. I never saw the car but did acquire the last car my grandfather had, a 1948 Nash four door sedan. I drove this car to college in 1968-69.
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