Re: Dealer List

Posted by Owen_Dyneto On 2009/8/12 8:21:16

John, what you suggest would be a great resource, yet I suspect it will be a far larger project than many of us would expect. My only dealer list is undated but I believe it's about 1939, and is 65 pages long, some pages listing 30 or more dealers. The list is somewhat hard to use because individual dealers are not listed by city and state but by the factory branch/distributorship they were serviced by which in some cases covers several different states. So to find a dealer you must first determine which factory branch covered that geographic area.

Also no doubt dealers were added, deleted, bought and sold, relocated, etc. during the course of each year, thus to even begin to capture the "big picture" would be a huge undertaking.

At some point I'll make a copy of my list and forward to Big Kev for him to see what he thinks might be done with it, but it's only a single list for a single year. Perhaps others will come forward with other lists, of have other suggestions on how to organize the material?