The Automotive Product Literature collection is an intentionally assembled collection of sales, promotional and informational material published by automotive manufacturers and used primarily by automotive dealers or sales agents to market and sell automobiles. The collection includes sales brochures, press kits, press releases, service bulletins, photographs, comparative literature, color and trim books and color chips, salesman's manuals, owner's manuals and reference books for over 1000 past and present automobile manufacturers worldwide. The bulk of the collection covers Ford Motor Company brands including Edsel, Ford, Lincoln and Mercury automobiles. A large collection of literature for foreign-made Ford automobiles is also available. Other manufacturers well represented are General Motors and its brands, Chrysler, Dodge, Plymouth, American Motors Corporation, Nash, Packard, DeSoto, Rolls-Royce, Renault, Fiat, Saab, Studebaker, Volkswagen, Volvo, Audi, BMW, Mazda, Mercedes-Benz, Honda and Jaguar. Literature is also available for hundreds of obscure and short-lived automobile manufacturers such as Ajax Electric (1903), Benner (1909), Conrad (1902), Devin (1964), Kidder (1902), Maverick (1953), Meteor (1901), Quantum (1962), Red Bug (1929), Steamobile (1901), Whitney (1897 and 1902) and Xenia (1914) and from international manufacturers in Canada, France, England, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Scotland, India, Austria, Russia, Israel, Ireland, Korea, Japan, Belgium, Spain, Australia, South Korea, Argentina, Hungary, Brazil, Malaysia, Sweden, China, Czechoslovakia and the Netherlands. The collection is arranged alphabetically by manufacturer and then chronologically. Starting in 2006, yearly addendums are being added to the collection. The 2006 addendum has two subseries: the Non-Ford subseries, 1907-2005 (8 cubic ft.) and the Ford subseries, 1920-2006 (4 cubic ft.).
