Author: [Automobile Trade Brochure / Catalogue]
Title: CADILLAC MOTOR CARS. Details of Construction. Type 57
Description: Detroit: Evans - Winter - Hebb, 1917. 1st printing. Blue paper covers, printed in dark blue & green. 32 pp. Illustrated with schematics, photographic-style images & a fold-out blueprint of the vehicle. 8vo. 9" x 6". Modest wear. PO name stamp [front cover & t.p.], paper abrasion to p. 3. Withal, a quite respectable VG+ copy. The Cadillac Type 57 was introduced for the 1918 model year, with 10 different body styles, on a 'universal chassis', with this brochure "describing in detail the construction of Type Fifty Seven Cadillac Motor Cars". The Type 57 ceased manufacture at the end of 1919, with ~ 45000 units produced. The vehicles are now somewhat uncommon, bringing 5 figures when found. A rare piece of automobile ephemera, documenting the innovative engineering employed in the Type 57's manufacture.

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