George Harrison changing records in his Jaguar

In the states the Highway Hi-Fi system was introduced in 1956 but discontinued in 1959 of struggling to get any traction with car buyers, as only CBS made records in the 16 rpm format, and they didn't bother putting rock and roll on these records, they instead went with classical and Disney music... no doubt some stuffy ultra religious and conservative corporate great aunt Karen was in charge of deciding what was "Appropriate" for records to play in cars.

 But Chrysler wasn’t ready to give up on being the only automaker that offered in-car personalized music selection. In 1960 and ’61, Chrysler replaced the Highway Hi-Fi system with an RCA “Auto Victrola” turntable that played a stack of up to 14 conventional 45-rpm singles.



The Mignon was surprisingly long-lived, produced from 1958 through 1970, and was more compact and sexier than its American counterparts. And it didn’t need specially-made records; 45 rpm records were simply slid into a slot in the front, a futuristic development 40 years ahead of in-dash CD players. However, the unit held only one record at a time.



However there was a dealer demo Highway Hi Fi record for certain model Chryslers that gave buyers a guided tour of the car’s features while they drove.

This idea would be resurrected in the 1980s when every car had a cassette player and factory instructional tapes were sometimes included to augment the printed owner’s manual.

https://www.hagerty.com/articles-videos/articles/2017/12/18/obsolete-car-audio-part-2
https://www.bukowskis.com/en/auctions/E305/lots/1086575-a-mignon-record-player-from-philips-designed-1957

An illustrative embodiment of my invention is shown in the accompanying drawings in which

Figure 1 is a side elevation of an automobile provided with my improved apparatus.
Fig. 2 is a plan view of my improvement with the casing removed.
Fig. 3 is a central longitudinal section taken on the line 3-3-of Fig. .2.
Fig. 4 is a side elevation, partly in section, of the phonograph control apparatus, the section being taken on the line 44 of Fig. 2.
Fig. 5 is a plan view of my improvement with the casing in position, certain parts being broken away to show the lock for securing the casing to its base.
Fig. 6 is a section taken on the irregular line 6-6 of Fig. 5, certain parts being shown in elevation and certain other parts being omitted for the sake of clearness; on the line 77 of Fig. 5.
Fig. 7 is a transverse section taken.
Fig. 8 is a transi more fully disclosing my invention, 20 represents an automobile having my signaling apparatus 21 secured there to in the position v in which I prefer to place it, namely, on the dash-board in proximity to the steering post 23, so that the megaphone 22 will be directly in front of the driver, although it will be understood of course that both the signaling apparatus and its megaphone may be located in any other suitable position, for example, being placed beside instead of in front of the driver.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US1168053A/en

Keep in mind, this was the highest tech at the time, and might have appealed to some people who didn't want to try and figure out AAA's Blue Book road instructions that were the same information, which the driver had to correlate by keeping an eye on the odometer if he had one, and the directions.


https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/10/interesting-ads-and-other-things-in.html

Then came strip maps


https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2018/02/1920s-road-trip-the-lincoln-highway-in-strip-maps/
http://www.mapsofpa.com/article9b.htm

Thank you Bruce!

the sign in the above photo is shown below








interesting old bumper jack






above, good idea for a bottle opener


wow, a spotlight display for salespeople


above, Kennedy tool boxes


great business card display!