Coast To Coast By Automobile
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Author | : Curt McConnell |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9780804733809 |
McConnell cuts through the fiction, legends, and industry-produced propaganda that have long surrounded the first transcontinental automobile trips as he relates long-lost personal accounts by pioneering travelers. 140 illustrations.
Author | : Curt McConnell |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780804743969 |
A richly illustrated history of the first cross-country auto trips exposes the role of these well-publicized jaunts in changing the way the public felt about this new technology. (Transportation)
Author | : Tom Cotter |
Publisher | : Quarto Publishing Group USA |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2018-05-15 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 0760364648 |
Driverless cars are on the horizon, but before the world falls asleep in the driver’s seat, let’s take a look back down the road from whence we have come. Ford Model-T Coast-to-Coast, documents the cross-country adventure of two brave drivers as they pilot a century-old Model-T on a 3,000-mile journey from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Coast. The book is as much a contemplation of early-20th century American life as it is a fond farewell to the automotive age. Can the car still be the vehicle of freedom and discovery, when we’re no longer in command? Or will we finally be able to fully appreciate the scenery rushing past? Accompanied by Michael Alan Ross’ evocative photography, author Tom Cotter stops in small towns, meets local people and hears their stories about cars, travel, and life. Cotter and Ross also explore back roads adjacent to his main route, the Lincoln Highway—the first transcontinental road. Significant cross-country runs, such as those by speed-record setter Cannonball Baker, and literary adventurers such as Jack Kerourac, John Steinbeck and Bill Bryson are considered in light of the driverless future. Cotter also drives some of the same roads that a young Edsel Ford traveled in his father’s Model T upon high school graduation in 1917. In addition to the central road trip, Cotter also visits interesting automotive and transport museums as well as “keepers of the flame” such as Model-T clubs, mechanics, junkyards and collectors across the country. He also records the numerous trials and tribulations in keeping a 100-year-old car operating on a 3,000-mile journey, something the driverless car of the future is unlikely to encounter. Join Cotter on his "slow drive across a fast country." You'll be glad you did.
Author | : Florence M. Trinkle |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 75 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : Automobile travel |
ISBN | : |
Account of a transcontinental automobile trip in 1908 (the 17th officially recorded) by Florence M. Trinkle and her husband Fred A. Trinkle, a Denver, Colo. mechanic and automobile dealer (agent for Brush Runabout). Includes information on the Brush Runabout, including period advertisements.
Author | : Curt McConnell |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2000-09-15 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9780786409709 |
The audacity of driving a horseless carriage from coast to coast in the early years of the 20th century is hard to imagine in an age of superhighways and global positioning systems. Roads might be nothing more than muddy ruts made by wagon wheels; sources of gasoline or replacement parts were few and agonizingly far between; frequent repairs and tire changes were necessary; and the traveler was subject to the whole range of nature's perils and discomforts. For a woman to attempt the trip was, at the time, a jaw-dropping event. Yet in 1909, 22-year-old Alice Ramsey and three female companions piled into a Maxwell in New York City, and 59 days later they triumphantly rolled into San Francisco. A few years later silent film star Anita King would become the first woman to make the transcontinental drive solo. These and other early coast-to-coast drives proved women's growing independence, as well as the automobile's long-distance viability. Detailed accounts of five coast-to-coast drives make up this lively history. Drawing from plentiful contemporary newspaper reports and the women's own words, author Curt McConnell recounts the bold adventurers' experiences day by day and mile by mile.
Author | : Curt McConnell |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1995-01-01 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9780803231634 |
Chronicles the development of midwestern community automobile manufacture prior to the Great Depression and identifies five early car makers and their contributions to the automobile industry
Author | : Barbara Delinsky |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2008-09-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1416579567 |
When his ex-wife has a car accident, architect Jack McGill leaves his job and latest girlfriend to fly to her bedside in Carmel, California. Finding her in a prolonged coma, he moves into her home to look after two resentful daughters.
Author | : Ken Vose |
Publisher | : Insight Guides |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780696219269 |
Features an overview of car, truck, and motorcycle customizers, modifiers, tuners, and detailers who have been inspired by Jesse James and the Monster Garage team.
Author | : Patricia Rusch Hyatt |
Publisher | : Carolrhoda Books |
Total Pages | : 78 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780876147894 |
Alice Ramsey, determined to be the first woman to drive across the United States, ventured out with her sixteen-year-old friend, Minna Jahns, and two other traveling companions for the journey of a lifetime.The year was 1909. Automobiles were brand new. There were few road maps and in some places no roads at all. But in New York City, Alice was climbing into a bright green Maxwell touring car, destined to be the first woman to drive across America. Author Patricia Rusch Hyatt has recreated the events of that historical summer in the form of a journal that Minna might have kept. Minna's thoughts are imagined but her adventures, from a murder investigation in Nebraska to an itchy encounter with bedbugs in Wyoming, really happened. The book is illustrated throughout with photographs from the actual journey. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author | : Terry Marsh |
Publisher | : Cicerone Press Limited |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2023-02-27 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1783624396 |
Guidebook and Ordnance Survey map booklet to the Coast to Coast Walk. The route stretches some 188 miles (302km) from St Bees on Cumbria's west coast to Robin Hood's Bay in North Yorkshire. It is suitable for most fit walkers and can be comfortably walked in around a fortnight. The full Coast to Coast route is described from west to east in 13 stages of between 10 and 21 miles, with high and low-level alternatives for crossing the Yorkshire Dales and comprehensive route summaries for those preferring to walk the trail in the opposite direction. The guidebook comes with a separate map booklet of 1:25,000 scale OS maps showing the full route. Clear step-by-step route descriptions in the guide are illustrated by 1:100,000 OS map extracts. The route description links together with the map booklet at each stage along the way, and the compact format is conveniently sized for slipping into a jacket pocket or the top of a rucksack. A comprehensive trek planner offers a helpful overview of facilities on route, and full accommodation listings and useful contacts can be found in the appendices. There is also a wealth of background information covering geology, history, wildlife and plants, and a list of further reading.