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November 2026 · national marque registers and the banked dealer record, read for the tests
No production marque was ever built in Lakeville; no false marque attaches to its name; and nothing was sold here to the world as a car — the boundary the checklist demands is a line with manufacture on neither side of it.No marque, factory, or works of any of the three shapes stands in any carrier reached, and the marque-register searches run in this section returned no Lakeville, Indiana marque. The false-marque test runs the names that trap searchers of this region — a car called for this ground that does not verify. Two stand dispelled by name: the car called "South Bend" and the Bendix buggy are South Bend's record, tested and owned in South Bend's build, and neither has any Lakeville manufacture behind it; and every "Lakeville" automobile hit reached in the searches belongs to Lakeville, Connecticut (its Lime Rock course) or Lakeville, Minnesota, and is refused as this town's. The boundary article then prints plainly, as the checklist requires it never be blurred: built here — no complete automobile, in any era, in any carrier reached; sold here — no automobile dealer named at any date reached (Polk 1916–17: garages 1, automobile dealers 0, Dealerships lk-dlr-first-census), the present trade standing as independent repair plus one self-described licensed dealer at listing strength (lk-dlr-franchise). Lakeville neither built cars nor, at any date the record reaches, kept a house that sold them; what it sold the world is the next article's subject, and it is a component, not a car.