"Fleshing Out" _CW_ Car Makers

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Was I the only one who tried to figure out the backgrounds of the various car-makers mentioned in the _Vehicle Guide_s? That is: Figuring out where the company came from; what its market was; did it have a particular design "motif"; that sort of thing.

Some of them were obvious -- for ex.:

-- Cycle Concepts dealt exclusively in motorcycles, and the odd sidecar
-- Houston Metal Fabricators was Oversized-Vehicles-Only
-- Courier Services Ltd. designed cargo-haulers of various sizes
-- Rothschild was a "luxury" brand (the cost, not the body type)

Others were less obvious:

-- Conquistador Motors, being in Mexico and the Southwest, went for simple, easily-maintained and -supplied designs
-- Kane Motors seemed to have a thing for massive firepower for a body size, at the expense of armor