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Legendary New York City-based independent body designer, draftsman and
consultant listed in the NYC business directories from 1909-1918.
Frederick E. Hoadley - Automobile Design Techniques and Design Modeling: the
Men, the Methods, the Materials - ISBN: 0966767306
book features George Mercer, Harley Earl, Joe Thompson, Gordon Buehrig, Alan
H. Leamy and Bob Gregorie.
From 1909 to 1918, a body engineer named George Mercer maintained an office
in New York and listed himself as an independent auto body designer,
draftsman and consultant. The sign on Mercer's door read "Automobile Body
Architecture." George Mercer, incidentally, had no connection with the
Mercer Automobile Company, but he did make a name for himself through his
technical books and magazine articles about early car design and body
construction. In addition to Mercer, another freelance body designer,
George P. Harvey, also opened an office in Manhattan with the same mission.
George J. Mercer and R.P. Williams - Motor Body Designing Problems, Ware
Bros. 1931
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