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Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Automobile Topics
Author: Ward's Automobile Topics
Author: Automobile Topics
Author: Automobile Topics
Author: Ward's Automobile Topics
Author: Automobile Topics; Volume 26
Author: AnonymousPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781020528224
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This comprehensive guide to automobiles and automobiling was published in 1922 for the general reader. It presents an overview of the history, technology, and social significance of the automobile, as well as practical advice on buying, driving, and maintaining cars. The book covers a wide range of topics such as engine design, chassis construction, transmissions, roads and highways, traffic laws, and touring. It also includes numerous illustrations, photographs, and advertisements for cars and accessories of the era. This edition features a new afterword by a historian of transportation. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Ward's Automobile Topics
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Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 720
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Elcar and Pratt Automobiles
Author: William S. LockePublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786409563
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
A surprisingly little-known marque today, Elcar once ranked among the finest vehicles on American roads. Built to exacting standards in Elkhart, Indiana, an Elcar could compete head-to-head on the basis of performance, quality, or price with the products of much larger manufacturers. Ultimately done in by weak distribution and the ravages of the Depression, Elcar today stands as an example of an ambitious company that transformed itself, successfully if temporarily, from a maker of buggies and harnesses into a respected car manufacturer in the early days of the automotive age. This remarkably exhaustive history, researched over several decades from all available sources, including interviews with former Elcar employees, details every Elcar model and the Pratt vehicles that preceded them, as well as the personalities behind the cars. Extensive appendices provide a complete model history, with specifications; a full corporate chronology; an illustrated accounting of all Elcars and Pratts known to survive whole or in part today; a roster of company employees; a descriptive list of all ads and brochures ever produced by the company; and a wealth of other data that can be found nowhere else. Lavishly illustrated and surpassingly thorough, this book is a well of information on a significant but forgotten line of automobiles.
The Chandler Automobile
Author: James H. LackeyPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476663939
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Incorporated by veteran automakers in 1913, the Chandler Motor Car Company was initially successful in a fiercely competitive industry, manufacturing an array of quality automobiles at a range of prices. Yet by the late 1920s the company was floundering under mismanagement. Producing four lines of cars with numerous body styles, Chandler and its lower-priced companion marque, Cleveland, were unable to find markets for their numerous models and seemed in effect to be competing against themselves. Drawing on numerous automotive histories and two large private collections of memorabilia, this exhaustive study of the Chandler Motor Car Company covers the automobiles in detail, including all body styles, and their changes during production. The author chronicles the growth, expansion and later troubles of Chandler and Cleveland, providing fresh insight into the formative years of the auto industry and the personalities who made it go.
The Jordan Automobile
Author: James H. LackeyPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476609217
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
The subject of one of the great advertising campaigns of the early 20th century, the “Somewhere West of Laramie” ads, Jordan is a well-remembered marque despite its brief duration. Edward Stanlaw “Ned” Jordan was born November 21, 1882, in Merrill, Wisconsin, and worked as a journalist before finding work in the automobile industry. A pioneer of automobile advertising and sales who got his start with Thomas B. Jeffery and Company in 1907, he founded the Jordan Motor Car Company with fellow Jeffery employees Russell S. Begg as experimental engineer and Paul Zens as purchasing agent in 1916. This book is both a biography of Ned Jordan and a history of his company and its vehicles from its beginning in 1916 to its end on April 1, 1932, when non-payment of franchise taxes forced its dissolution. Jordan’s first models were four- and seven-passenger custom-type touring cars, but it would become famous for the Sport Marine, the Playboy, the Little Tomboy, and the Little Custom Jordan. Spectacularly illustrated.