found this hudson dealership reciept fron 1937

hoggyrubber

i thought this was too cool to pass up while i was in a flea market the other day. $340 for a de soto coupe!

Sarah Young

I believe this is a new addition for the HET club's dealer listings!

hudsontech

Interesting - I wonder what year the DeSoto was. Here's a 1952 invoice for a used 1942 Hudson Traveler sedan, Model 10T. Note the price.

hudsontech

Interesting - I wonder what year the DeSoto was. Here's a 1952 invoice for a used 1942 Hudson Traveler sedan, Model 10T. Note the price.

(I shamelessly stole this invoice off ebay). :whistle:

Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN

hoggyrubber

Sarah Young,
i bought a copy of the huson dealership listing a little while back. i also went to the library in springfield and went thru the microfilms of the old phone books for springfield and found a bunch of others that weren't listed in the het list. prob at least 8 more and made copys of them. i spent the whole afternoon and prob 5 bucks in copys on old stuff out of the phone books.
should i post them with addresses on this thread or send them to you so they can be included in the het listing? the phone books went back to teens and had a ton of neat stuff in them. it's amazing how much stuff has changed. you had to call funeral home to get a ride in ambulance. very few doctors restaurants, and lawyers lots of hardware stores, appliances, and radio repair.

Unknown

From the motor # listed on the invoice, it's a model SD which would be around a 35. I don't have my listings with me right now so this is an educated guess.

[Deleted User]

Nice.... Really cool!

EssexAdv

Sarah, why not do both. That way those of us who enjoy such things will have the info. And.. if the club issues a revised list they can include the info: I'm not sure the club intends to revise the book

Lewis Mendenhall

Sarah Young

Not sure how I managed to steal the thread, but if someone did research and wants to share it, it's their information to do with as they see fit. Sometimes sharing sparks interest in others to do research at their local libraries or rekindles someones memory. Discovering an ample amount of previously undocumented dealerships and clarifying the existing information creates a need for the club's dealership book to be revised sooner than later.

hoggyrubber

1925- hudson-essex motor co: 457 st louis, # 836
1926- oliver motor car co: 795 boonville, # 836
1931- etherington motor co: 318 e pershing, # 2281
oliver-murphy sales and service: 463 st louis, # 836
1933- etherington motor co: 416 st louis, # 2281
1934- omans motor co: 415 e commercial, #3350
1936- j b kidd motor inc: 416 st louis, #1476
1937- j b kidd motor inc: 324 e pershing, #1476
1941- cowden motor co: 307 w walnut, # 562
1943- cowden motor co: 313 s patton, # 562
1947- cowden motor co: 631 boonville, #562
1948- blankenship motor co: 1022 boonville, # 604
1949- blankenship motor co: 1022 boonville, # 2-4404
1952- kidd-freeman motor co: 900 st louis, # 6-2761
1954- lampe fayette motor sales: 900 st louis, # 2-7041
ones listed in het list
fayette lampe: 900 st louis
richardson motor sales: 511 st louis
sam herrick & son: 427-31 college- listed as selling oldsmobile in early 50's
here is the list i came up with from springfield, mo phone books. i only made a
listing if something changed like address, new dealer, phone # etc. lots of duplicates
were listed in other years but i didn't include every entery.

hoggyrubber

the above list was what i got from the springfield phone books. if anyone has anything to add or any info about any springfield dealerships, i am interested, just let me know. sorry it took me so long to reply, my home computer is down and i had to reply from work. that and i am a slow typer. :blink:

hoggyrubber

i had a interesting find the other day. i say a J B Kidd motors key holder at a local flea market the other day and remembered he was a local hudson dealer back in the thirtys. it was the only thing in the darn flea market that wasn't for sale! it was after Mr Kidd stopped selling hudsons and went to gmc trucks around 1941. it also gave me a idea and i looked in the phone book and found a current J B Kidd so i gave him a call, and come to find out it was his son! i talked to him for about 30 mins and he gave me some new info about his dads dealership. i asked him if he had any pictures of the dealership when it was going. he said his family used to have a lot of pictures but looks like they were all unaccounted for as of now. what a shame! he said he wishes he still had them too. notice the number on the gmc truck holder is the same one listed on both of his hudson dealership locations they were apparently 1935 to 1937 and 1937 to 1940 and he was afilliated with the Kidd freeman one in the early fifties as well.

37 CTS

Thank you hoagyrubber for the dealer info , and I have entered it in the list for the next edition of the Your Hometown Hudson Dealer.

37 CTS

While we are on the ideal of dealership listings, If anyone has new ones please send me the data for the next editon of the book. The last book has about 6,000 listings and my updated spreadsheet has 7950 domestic dealership listings!!

charles4d

I thought in 1942 it was a model 20 T not 10 T ?

hudsontech

1942 models all started with the number 20 - thus it would be a 20T

Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN

MikeWA

10 year old Hudson for $325 in 1952- Interesting, I'd have thought it would be much cheaper- When I was a kid in the '60's, we routinely paid only a couple hundred bucks for a 10 year old car. I bought a very good '57 Pontiac 2 door hardtop in 1967 for $150 off a dealer lot.