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Well, this wasn´t primarily a Cadillac issue. Suddenly a lot of cars in the database had their commercial names replaced with internal codes. Often these cars had been entered properly for years, whoever did this change without any notice could maybe think a little about wasting time for others.
Back in those days most cars were known just by their type of engine and/or the bodytype, and named such. This of course means that they shared "modelnames" with a large part of their competitors. In England and France the taxation often gave the "modelname" to the cars.
Another type of common designation used is De Luxe, Special or some other trimlevel.
This is how it was and how they were portrayed in sales material given to the customers and published in newspapers. Is this of no importance?
I don´t think it´s fair to delete this from history and replace it with internal codes that most people outside the management and the service departments were even aware of.
The codes are very interesting and useful, and we have a place to put them, so I don´t really see the problem here. More than that we could have use for a separate field for bodystyles. Some have only chassis codes, some only bodycodes and some have both. I don´t know if it would burden the site to much with space to add another field?
About Cadillacs, it of course doesn´t mean all cars in that period you´re mentioning. It would be mostly during the thirties, following Cadillac/LaSalles own publishings.
The use of the term "Series" comes for the first time with the 1936 models from what I can find, and it seems mostly to be treated as secondary information at this point. It comes and goes in different printings up till 1942, mostly it´s not used and the number Sixty-One etc. is spelled out without the prefix "Series". After the war it´s used in almost every printing like this: Series 61, 62 etc. up till 1956 models. From 1957 and on "Series" is deleted and they´re only named Sixty-Two until this designation ceased.
Pre 1930 they´re mainly known by the body, like Cadillac Roadster. But I havn´t yet found much material on the early ones, so I wouldn´t be surprised to find for instance Type-something to be a correct designation for a 1915 model.
About V8 or V-8, well this is the way Cadillac almost always used it in period publishing, so why not?
It´s not always easy to figure out what´s "right" or "wrong" from original publishings, we will find inconsistencies or even contradictions when searching. But looking through the published material often gives a fairly good picture of how the manufacturers wanted to present their products.
It might change in spelling or such over the years, and maybe we need to make a choice which way to use. But in general I think it´s important to try to follow the original denominations.
If not, we´re rewriting history and what´s the point in that?
Back in those days most cars were known just by their type of engine and/or the bodytype, and named such. This of course means that they shared "modelnames" with a large part of their competitors. In England and France the taxation often gave the "modelname" to the cars.
Another type of common designation used is De Luxe, Special or some other trimlevel.
This is how it was and how they were portrayed in sales material given to the customers and published in newspapers. Is this of no importance?
I don´t think it´s fair to delete this from history and replace it with internal codes that most people outside the management and the service departments were even aware of.
The codes are very interesting and useful, and we have a place to put them, so I don´t really see the problem here. More than that we could have use for a separate field for bodystyles. Some have only chassis codes, some only bodycodes and some have both. I don´t know if it would burden the site to much with space to add another field?
About Cadillacs, it of course doesn´t mean all cars in that period you´re mentioning. It would be mostly during the thirties, following Cadillac/LaSalles own publishings.
The use of the term "Series" comes for the first time with the 1936 models from what I can find, and it seems mostly to be treated as secondary information at this point. It comes and goes in different printings up till 1942, mostly it´s not used and the number Sixty-One etc. is spelled out without the prefix "Series". After the war it´s used in almost every printing like this: Series 61, 62 etc. up till 1956 models. From 1957 and on "Series" is deleted and they´re only named Sixty-Two until this designation ceased.
Pre 1930 they´re mainly known by the body, like Cadillac Roadster. But I havn´t yet found much material on the early ones, so I wouldn´t be surprised to find for instance Type-something to be a correct designation for a 1915 model.
About V8 or V-8, well this is the way Cadillac almost always used it in period publishing, so why not?
It´s not always easy to figure out what´s "right" or "wrong" from original publishings, we will find inconsistencies or even contradictions when searching. But looking through the published material often gives a fairly good picture of how the manufacturers wanted to present their products.
It might change in spelling or such over the years, and maybe we need to make a choice which way to use. But in general I think it´s important to try to follow the original denominations.
If not, we´re rewriting history and what´s the point in that?