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listing of Contributor: Wilfred R. Franson
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Many of these automobile-related articles and memoirs by W. R. Franson previously appeared in his Franson's Motor News, or as renamed, Car History Magazine; or as "Car Stories" (a newspaper column).
He was a member of the Early Ford V-8 Club of America and the Society of Automotive Historians.
| Franson, Wilfred R. (W. R. Franson; Bill Franson) |
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| Aerial Cableway, Niagara Falls * Postcard, 18 July 1936 |
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| Alcohol Plant Springfield, Oregon 1947 |
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| Capitol Oil Wells, Oklahoma City Postcard, 14 May 1946 |
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| Chevrolet Vega 1970-1977 |
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| Day-Nite Garage, The Eugene, Oregon 1939-1941 |
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| Duesenberg Automobiles 1921-1937 |
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| Eugene Post Office, The Eugene, Oregon 1949-1956 |
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| Gas-Electric Cars Go Way Back Some History and Prospects |
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| Geared Way, Way Down A Parable of Efficiency |
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| How Many Wheels? Early Three-Cornered Cars |
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| Hupmobile Automobiles 1908-1940 |
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| I Was Ejected from a Spaceship Atlas 10-B Orbits the Earth San Diego 1958 |
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| Jefferson Ice Company, The Chicago 1927-1929, 1933-1936 |
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| Lightning Strikes the Lighthouse Escanaba, Michigan 1906 |
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Luck versus Auto Accidents With Some Scrapes and Escapes |
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| Model T Ford 1908-1927 |
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| My First Car 1927 Chevrolet Coupe |
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| Old Route 66 1932, 1934, 1946 |
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| Pierce-Arrow Automobiles 1901-1938 |
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| Rickenbacker Automobiles 1922-1927 |
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| Sandy River Service Station Troutdale, Oregon 1938-1939 |
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| Stearns-Knight Automobiles 1911-1929 |
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| U.S. Highway 101, San Diego Coast Postcard, 16 July 1938 |
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[Near Harlech Castle, on the coast of Gwynedd, Wales.]
King Richard II:
For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground,
And tell sad stories of the death of kings —
How some have been deposed, some slain in war,
Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed ...William Shakespeare
Richard II, 3.2.142-143 & 151-154
Wilfred R. Franson
McKenzie Pass
east of Eugene, Oregon 1940
The first two lines I quote
from Richard II are among
my father's favorites in all Shakespeare.
A lifelong automobile fan and historian,
he applied them lovingly to
the classic automobile marques:
Packard, Pierce-Arrow, and so on;
he spent many years recalling, researching,
& writing car histories.
— RWF
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