Front:
USA 25
DETROTT
1928 Locomobile
25
1988
48233
Stauley M. Paine
MI
Back:
LOCOMOBILE
First Day of Issue: August 25, 1988
First Issue Location: Detroit, Michigan
A rather odd-looking contraption, the first effort of the Lo-
comobile Company was actually a welded bicycle frame-
work topped by a carriage body and equipped with a
twin-cylinder engine and a boiler beneath the driver's
seat. It sold for $600 — not much of a bargain, for it
required constant lubrication and water every twenty
miles. But from these humble beginnings grew a com-
pany of pride and a product of beauty and style. In fact,
as the years went by the Locomobile Company began to
produce some of the most luxurious and elegant touring
cars ever seen in America. With T-shaped cabs and long,
elegant body styles, running boards and sometimes con-
vertible roofs, the Locomobile evolved into a popular,
sporty vehicle, perfectly suited to the 1920's and
America's freewheeling way of life. By 1929, the Loco-
mobile Company was into its final year of production, and
its days of advertising “no stock parts or ready-made
units” had come to a close.
No. 88-48
©1988 The Maximum Card Collection
A Division of Unicover Corporation . Cheyenne, WY 82008-0007
Original painting by Stanley Paine
