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The Art of Engineering & Design

The automobile business for special-ordered and high-dollar cars was on the verge of shifting to a gear never seen before. It was necessary as the booming business of making and selling automobiles grew to a new peak in the 1929 model year. For the transition to happen, fresh thinking was fomenting in the minds of car moguls and the liberally moneyed sliver of the public that could afford such forms of luxurious personal transport.

Julio Andrade, whose star was attached to the rise of noted designer Amos Northrup, sided with him at the Detroit-based Murray Corp. of America, a fine house for custom automobile designs. As 1929 approached, ideas bounced between them and other designers. What designs

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