This beauty is reporting for duty today with a ca. 1950 pamphlet from the Buick Motor Division of the General Motors Corporation. Beauty on Duty: Glass Plays Many Roles in the 1950 Buick touted new designs in Buick's windshield and window design that were intended to improve comfort and safety on the road.
The pamphlet is part of Hagley Library's collection of Z. Taylor Vinson collection of transportation ephemera (Accession 20100108.ZTV). For over sixty years, Zachary Taylor Vinson (1933-2009), a senior lawyer with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 1993-1995 president of the Society of Automotive Historians, and 1995-2009 editor of Automotive History Review amassed a large and comprehensive collection of printed material documenting on the history transportation, particularly automobiles.
Our Digital Archive offers a small selection of materials from the Vinson collection documenting the history of the automobile and transportation, including this one.. Click here to view them online.
The Library also offers Collecting Paper Cars: Z. Taylor Vinson's Collection of Automobile Advertising, a digital exhibit that explores Vinson’s work as a collector and the remarkable collection he dedicated his life to building.