The "My Favorite Collectibles: Part III - A Calendar For Mother" Story

It was an ordinary day.  Sometime in the early 2000's and I had just returned from a trip to a few of the antique stores near Adamstown, Pennsylvania known as Renninger's Antique and Collectors Market and Stoudt's Black Angus Antique Mall.  This area of Pennsylvania is known for their high quality antiques and it is so interesting to see what others have decided to discard over the years.  My "big" find today was a 1922 calendar that I gave to my mother since it was the year of her birth.  Only problem was that it carried drawings of automobiles from that era.  When she and my father died, I sort of inherited just about everything that my brother didn't have an interest in at the time.  The calendar was special to me since I had bought it for her years before her death.  As I leafed through the pages of cars it amazed me that there were several that I hadn't even heard of before.  The first page from the calendar will show you the design of the calendar, but the photographs that follow will show you all the automobiles that were featured in the calendar.  See how many you can remember that were in production in 1922. It was a another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.  PS - Click on images to enlarge them.

The car featured on this month is the Auburn.   It was  produced in Auburn, Indiana and this car was a four-passenger sport model, selling fully-equipped at $2,195, f.o.b. the factory.  Offered as standard equipment are shock absorbers, a nickel-plated radiator shell, bar filler cap with Motometer, cowl ventilator, individual fenders, polished aluminum steps, trunks with nickeled trimmings on each side of the car, barrel-type headlamps and a parking light on the left rear fender.

FEBRUARY
The Rauch & Lang was an electric vehicle made by Each & Lang, Inc. of Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts.  It claims to be an electric sedan that is a radically different electric automobile.  The company also claims more interest on the part of the  public this year than ever before inter history.

MARCH
This new and improved Haynes 75 two-passenger Speedster is equipped with a six cylinder, 75 horsepower engine of Haynes' own design.  Individual steps and fenders and two extra wire wheels are standard equipment.  Wind deflectors, rear vision mirrors, windshield cleaners, exterior side cowl lights and searchlight-type head lamps are also furnished at no additional cost.  Tests show the car is capable of an 80 miles per hour top speed.

APRIL
The Essex coach is a product of the Hudson Motor Company of Detroit, Michigan and is expected to be a trend-setter, offering a popularly-price car to the motoring public.  This is the first coach offered under the Essex banner and it is offered at a selling price of $1,345, just $250 more than the touring car model.

MAY
Although there is good reasons for buying a car from the more popular, established manufacturers, there are many of these buyers who would aldodlike their off-the-showroom-floor models to have a little extra flair.  For these buyers, the Automotive Body Company of Chicago, Illinois offers this racing body to transform their Ford, Chevrolet, Dodge, Maxwell, Saxon or overland into a lightweight racing model ready to do battle on the track. 

JUNE
Now in its second year of manufacture, Earl Motors, Inc., of Jackson Michigan offers this Earl touring model for $1,285.  Its low graceful lines are, in the words of its builders, designed to appeal to those who take an honest pride in their belongings, who seek to rise above the commonplace in their homes their dress and their cars. 

JULY
From Teledo, Ohio, the Willys-Overland Company offers this four-door sedan at a price of $895 for the 1922 model year.  The company claims this to be the easiest riding, longest-serving, most economical and most popular of the 800,000 Overlands produced since its beginning in 1903.  Equipment included electric starter, lights, horn, speedometer, and demountable wire wheels.  The economy claim is based on owner's records showing 25 miles per gallon.

AUGUST
This touring car, offered for $885, on one of four models offered for 1922 by the Maxwell Motor Company ofDetroit, Michigan.  The car boasts unusually long springs which it maker claims accounts for a degree of road comfort unusual for a car of its weight and size.  Standard equipment included disc steel wheels which are demountable at the rim and hub, leather upholstery, a new watertight windshield, electric horn and drum type head lamps. 

SEPTEMBER
A newcomer on the automotive scene for 1922 is this new Jewett, designed and built by the Paige-Detroit Morot Car Company.  This four=door sedan boasts all-metal coach work claimed to be free of rattles and squeaks.  Power is supplied by aa 50 horsepower six-cylinder engine.  Available through allPaige dealers, the sedan sells for $1,395.  

OCTOBER
The Stewart Motor Corporation is seeking to expand its list of dealers in 1922, offering franchises to established dealers of other vehicles.  Leading their line is the stake-bodied "Utility Wagon" which falls in the same capacity range as more than 60% of all the trucks being sold today to they growing commercial market.   

NOVEMBER
The Impressively-named Southern Motor manufacturing Association, Limited, of Houston, Texas, announces for 1922 this roadster model, latest in the line of Ranger automobiles.  Powered by the four-cylinder Ranger-Supreme engine which features a 3 3/8" bore and a 5" stroke, this model offers ample seating room and luggage storage.  The roadster bodies mounted on the same 116 inch wheelbase chases as their touring model and sells for $1,595.

DECEMBER
Last year, W.C. Durant left General Motors, having been replaced as president by Pierre S. DuPont in 1920, to form his own company in Flint Michigan.  In this, the Durant Motor Company's first year of production, the firm is making a bid for the low-price market, offering this Star touring car for the reasonable price of $348.