1942 Ad Despard & Co. Ins. Brokers | Gasoline Buggy

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This 1942 black and white vintage advertisement for Despard & Co. Insurance Brokers has an illustration of Charles Duryea's first gasoline powered automobile with the headline, “Service that endures…1892”.

Year Published: 1942
Approximate overall size – inches: 5 x 12
Grade: Excellent

Excerpt:
“On April 19, 1892, at Springfield Mass., Charles E. Duryea successfully demonstrated his ‘Gasoline Buggy’—a prodigy of power, whose increasing reliability over fifty years has furnished a striking example of SERVICE THAT ENDURES.”

This is a 82 yr. old original vintage ad removed from a 1942 publication and is not a reproduction of any kind.

Wikipedia on Charles Duryea