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AMA is Automobile Manufacturers Association, which was headquartered in Detroit. It was a direct descendant of the Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers, which was a Pope creation administering Selden Patent licenses. The attached documents, from a yet stillborn but potentially still viable historical dictionary project I began about ten years ago, explain.
Jim Wren, a longtime SAH member, headed the Patent Department at AMA, and may still have been there when it folded. You should be able to find him through the "Member Services" portal at AutoHistory.org. I'm somewhat hazy on the disposition of the AMA "Patent" archives, but they perhaps were given to the National Automotive History Collection at the Detroit Public Library. NAHC has periodic sales and auctions of duplicate material, so this piece may have passed to John Conde in that manner.[1]
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