Talk:Brass Era car

Mfg locations vs distributing locations[edit]

It seems that the Leslie's Popular Monthly listing has locations which must be of dealerships, since several are listed in locations that were not where they were built (e.g. Studebaker, listed at New York when they were in South Bend, Indiana). —Morven 16:22, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)

Yep, they're mostly build locations, but some were sales contacts. It's a cool book, though... --SFoskett 16:51, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)

Mistake in years?[edit]

The article includes:

In the United Kingdom, this era is split into two periods:

Pre-1918 vehicles are veteran cars
1905–1918 vehicles are Edwardian cars.

This is strange because 1905-1918 is Pre-1918. Is this meant to say Pre-1905? jnothman ^talk 04:44, 24 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

And I have therefore removed the UK info from that section. Paul Beardsell (talk) 12:42, 25 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"brass era car" vs "horseless carriage"[edit]

Hello. Should this page be named "brass era car" or "horseless carriage". I think "horseless carriage" is the more well-known term, yes? Ewlyahoocom 08:45, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Google yields: "Veteran Car" 7.8M hits, "Brass Era" 2.2M hits, "Horseless Carriage" 230k hits, so I suggest "Veteran Car" would be a better article name. "Brass Era" sounds like an American colloquialism to me. The expression is 'unknown' in the UK. Bill F 23:22, 17 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think Horseless cariage should be used because the other two were aplied retro actively and because i too have never heared then called Brass era. The term Horseless cariage would also include slightly earlier vehicles like the Benz Patent Motor Wagon and the Royal Enfield Quadracycle. I prepose a vote.(Morcus (talk) 00:34, 15 April 2008 (UTC))[reply]

This Yank has never heard of "brass era". Kortoso (talk) 18:17, 22 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Google results above are meaningless as no quotes were put round them in the search. With quotes, "Brass era" yields 180,000, "Horseless carriage" 374,000, "Veteran car" 405,000. (I doubt the numbers have gone down.) So the current choice is unjustified. Chris55 (talk) 12:37, 28 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I forgot my 3-D glasses[edit]

Would it be possible to get some, oh I don't know, normal pictures that are viewable by standard human eyes without external implements? Unfortunately, the current images are extremely abrasive to my unaltered sense of vision. Are there actually people who have 3-D glasses sitting right next to their computer so they can view images online? I haven't even seen a pair since I was a little kid. Holla back Wikipedia! D-Fluff has had E-Nuff 17:46, 19 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fabrication?[edit]

I think "brass era" is not in common usage. Someone did a Google search, above, and counted millions of hits. But a search for "brass era vehicle" returns only thousands and the most prominent results are references to this very article. I suggest this term is fabricated by its authors, here. Paul Beardsell (talk) 12:47, 25 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

At Google Book Search, which searches the content of books and magazines from many pre-web decades, a search for "brass era" turns up usage of the phrase in reference to automobiles from before Wikipedia existed, so it was not fabricated here; however, you could be right about its increase in popularity since this article was written. I feel that it's OK as-is. — ¾-10 02:37, 26 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've known that term all my life, and I'm much older than Wikipedia. It might very well be that the term is not used outside of the US. HornColumbia (talk) 14:05, 26 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"Brass era" seems to be an americanism. Since I was a child in the 50's, the distinction was between "veteran" cars (pre 1918), "vintage" cars ( pre 1930 ), and "thoroughbred" or "classic" cars after 1930.Eregli bob (talk) 07:21, 3 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned references in Brass Era car[edit]

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Brass Era car's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "georgano":

From History of the automobile: Georgano, G.N. (1985). Cars: Early and Vintage, 1886-1930. London: Grange-Universal.
From Glide (automobile company): G. N. Georgano (2001), The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile: M-Z, Taylor & Francis, ISBN 1579582931

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 06:02, 26 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi AnomieBOT. I am a sentient editor and have followed up on, and resolved, your request. I found that lookup on Georgano 1985 indicates multiple coeditions and republishings (which is not surprising, as explained at the linked page). I used one here that can offer an isbn attribute. (The pagination would be the same in each case, given the technologies used to do the republication. This addresses your point about determining whether minor differences are significant or not.) The corrected ref is * {{Citation | last = Georgano | first = G.N. | year = 1985 | title = Cars, 1886-1930 | publisher = Beekman House, distributed by Crown | location = New York | isbn = 0517480735 }}., which displays as * Georgano, G.N. (1985), Cars, 1886-1930, New York: Beekman House, distributed by Crown, ISBN 0517480735. Keep up the good work! Regards, — ¾-10 20:38, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Globalize[edit]

The lists of manufacturers in this article are almost entirely American, lacking the global representation in History of the automobile. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pbtflakes (talk • contribs) 16:44, 17 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Well, this "Brass era" term is specifically American, so I have taken the other approach - and nudged the article toward a US-only one. Hope that's OK. Snori (talk) 05:55, 10 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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