[Rarebooks] OFFER: DYKES' PROGRESSIVE CHART MANIKIN OF THE AUTOMOBILE WITH MOVABLE METAL PARTS.

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DYKE, A. L. : ST. LOUIS, MO. DYKES' PROGRESSIVE CHART MANIKIN OF THE 
AUTOMOBILE SHOWING HOW THE AUTOMOBILE PARTS ARE ASSEMBLED INTO A 
COMPLETE CAR, WITH ALL PARTS NAMED.  1913. Dyke, A. L. : St. Louis 
,Mo. The text is in an oblong 4to, 16 Pp. The booklet is the 
"Manikin", itself which consists a series of detailed three 
dimensional drawings of the workings of the car. There also are a 
series of separate boards with the movable car part in metal with 
printed color and text these appear on both sides of the card. The 
models were issued separately. This group includes all of those 
mentioned in an ad for one of them, included, and may be complete. 
These parts are:

"The Car: Working Model of A Carburetor" here, one side shows the 
outside, the other a cutaway showing the inside.
"The Car: Working model of a differential gear." By Geo. C. Sherrrin A.M.I.A.E.
"The High Tension Magneto" There is some loss of text at top and bottom.
"Four Cycle Gasoline Engine"
" Working Model of Clutch and Gear Box."

Dykes is here trying to make new owners of cars, and owners of 
services stations more knowledgeable about the construction and 
function of the automobile in ways which will help them to service 
it, repair it, and replace broken parts. The machine was quite 
complicated and required a knowledge of electricity as well as the 
finctions of the internal combustion engine. Such functions as the 
clutch were also new and difficult.
OCLC/RLIN notes no copies of any part of this. Neither do Hollis, 
YUS, NYPL, Brown, Melvyl, CRI, IU, UMo, Melvyl, Mi St, UWis, Iowa, 
UMI, Minn, Purdue, IU2, Wayne St., Newbery, OhioSt, OhioU, PaSt, 
NYPL, CIT, RenssT, Carnegie, UP, BobCat, ColU, but there is a copy at 
LC, and a microfilm at U Chic. VG.  $850.00