Tucker Corporaton Business Card, circa 1948
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Preston Tucker took advantage of the postwar seller's market to launch his all-new Tucker 48 sedan for 1948. The company operated out of a war-surplus aircraft engine plant in Chicago, described by Tucker as the largest factory in the world at the time. Legal and financial problems brought an early end to the Tucker Corporation in 1950.
Preston Tucker took advantage of the postwar seller's market to launch his all-new Tucker 48 sedan for 1948. The company operated out of a war-surplus aircraft engine plant in Chicago, described by Tucker as the largest factory in the world at the time. Legal and financial problems brought an early end to the Tucker Corporation in 1950.
Artifact
Business card
Date Made
circa 1948
Subject Date
circa 1948
Creators
Collection Title
Research Center Business and Personal Identity Card Collection
Location
Not on exhibit to the public.
Object ID
88.352.6
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of George Wind.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Printing (Process)
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Inscriptions
on front: THE TUCKER '48 / "THE CAR YOU HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR" on back, center: TUCKER Corporation on back, lower right corner: 7401 SOUTH CICERO AVENUE / CHICAGO 29. ILLINOIS
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