Ca 1920 Suggestions for Operation and Care of the Chandler Motor Car

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Ca 1920 Suggestions for Operation and Care of the Chandler Motor Car
64 pp + cover, 6 x 9 inches
No date noted on the manual.
ORIGINAL- not a reprint
In 1920,
Chandler
had a line of six cars, ranging from 95 to 95. This grew to 10 by 1922, ranging from 95 to 75.  Like many other medium-price carmakers, in the middle 1920s Chandler introduced a lower-priced "companion car" called the Cleveland. In 1924, they introduced the "Traffic Transmission," a constant-mesh gearbox that reduced the need for extra clutching when downshifting. This was several years before General Motors offered the "Synchro-Mesh" transmission, which allowed the driver to shift into first gear while moving forward at low speeds.
Chandler's peak year was 1927, when they sold 20,000 cars. Hopes for continued growth of the market led to overexpansion by the company the following year, which finished 1928 over half a million dollars in debt.
In 1929, Chandler Motor Company was purchased by its expanding competitor Hupp Motor Car Company for its factory and manufacturing facilities, and the brand was discontinued.
Chandler, like most cars built before all-steel bodies became the industry standard in the mid-1930s, used bodies built with a metal skin around a wooden frame (an "armored wood" frame).  Due to the use of fabric roofs, after a few decades the wood tended to rot; because of this Chandlers have survived in smaller numbers than some other popular automobiles of the era that used all-steel bodies.
See photos for condition details. 1 inch tear top of TOC page, shelf wear, 1/2 tear side margin p43.  No writing noted
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