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Moon Motors ordered bodies - made
"after designs of Ladis Lewkowicz" - from the Convertible Automobile Body
Corporation of New York, described in Horseless Age as a new company that
was also filling orders for Cadillac, Case, E-M-F, Ford, Locomobile, Packard
and Simplex.
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Dec 13 1922
1922 Early Convertible Top Patented
Eight years after they began offering their removable car-top on KisselKar
and Kissel automobiles, William Kissel and Friedrich Werner received an
American patent for their invention. Their "Convertible Automobile Body" had
a removable hard top that could turn a closed car into an open touring
car--one of the earliest convertibles
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The appearance of Ladis Lewkowicz and his Anzani-Bleriot in 1909 stirred the
emotions and Kastory signed up with the bearded one for a tour of Hungary,
Austria and France. In Paris the two built a new plane of the same model and
brought it to America where Lewkowicz started a school at Mineola and flew
exhibitions in the South. One day the engine quit Ladis over New York and
the plane was glided to a landing across the Hudson in New Jersey.
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