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The Motor Car & Its Story
Author | : Charles Robert Gibson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Automobiles |
ISBN | : |
Mr Gumpy's Motor Car
Author | : John Burningham |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2012-10-09 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1448102634 |
Mr Gumpy has decided to go for a ride in his motor car. It's a nice day and the sun is shining, so off he goes. But he only gets as far as the lane before the children, the rabbit, the cat, the dog, the pig, the sheep, the chickens, the calf and the goat ask if they can come along too. As the motor car and its passengers make their way across the field, the weather begins to turn and the rain is soon pouring down. The tyres cannot grip the muddy ground, so Mr Gumpy asks for volunteers to push the car. But everyone has an excuse, until it gets so bad that they all have to get out and help. Eventually, the sun shines once more as they drive across the bridge - and there's time for a swim on the way home.
The Life of the Automobile
Author | : Steven Parissien |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 447 |
Release | : 2014-05-13 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1466836237 |
The Life of the Automobile is the first comprehensive world history of the car. The automobile has arguably shaped the modern era more profoundly than any other human invention, and author Steven Parissien examines the impact, development, and significance of the automobile over its turbulent and colorful 130-year history. Readers learn the grand and turbulent history of the motor car, from its earliest appearance in the 1880s—as little more than a powered quadricycle—and the innovations of the early pioneer carmakers. The author examines the advances of the interwar era, the Golden Age of the 1950s, and the iconic years of the 1960s to the decades of doubt and uncertainty following the oil crisis of 1973, the global mergers of the 1990s, the bailouts of the early twenty-first century, and the emergence of the electric car. This is not just a story of horsepower and performance but a tale of extraordinary people: of intuitive carmakers such as Karl Benz, Sir Henry Royce, Giovanni Agnelli (Fiat), André Citroën, and Louis Renault; of exceptionally gifted designers such as the eccentric, Ohio-born Chris Bangle (BMW); and of visionary industrialists such as Henry Ford, Ferdinand Porsche (the Volkswagen Beetle), and Gene Bordinat (the Ford Mustang), among numerous other game changers. Above all, this comprehensive history demonstrates how the epic story of the car mirrors the history of the modern era, from the brave hopes and soaring ambitions of the early twentieth century to the cynicism and ecological concerns of a century later. Bringing to life the flamboyant entrepreneurs, shrewd businessmen, and gifted engineers that worked behind the scenes to bring us horsepower and performance, The Life of the Automobile is a globe-spanning account of the auto industry that is sure to rev the engines of entrepreneurs and gearheads alike.
Car
Author | : Mary Walton |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780393318616 |
This astonishing journey into the belly of one of our most important industries, a portrait of the energy and ingenuity of America at work, follows the 1996 Ford Taurus from its conception to its public debut.
Mr. Gumpy's Outing
Author | : John Burningham |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2001-05 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780805066296 |
Mr. Gumpy accepts more and more riders on his boat until the inevitable occurs.
Packard
Author | : Beverly Rae Kimes |
Publisher | : Automobile Quarterly Publications |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Automobile industry and trade |
ISBN | : 9780971146815 |
Only the legendary Packard could command a book of such scope and expense. This monumental work has required ten years of research, documentation and photography. It represents many more decades of collecting Packard automobiles, facts, photographs, technical data and information to record for all time every aspect, every model, every achievement of the Packard motor car and the men who made its name an emblem and international byword for taste and refinement in automotive design and engineering. Over three years were spent in intensive writing, checking, cross-checking, rewriting, coordinating, editing, and winnowing thousands of rare and unpublished historic photographs. This volume represents the scholarly efforts of sixteen contributors and was written by ten highly qualified authorities on Packard lore.Winner of a Cugnot Award.
Anatomy of the Motor Car
Author | : L. J. K. Setright |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Automobiles |
ISBN | : 9780856136931 |
The Woman and the Car
Author | : Dorothy Levitt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Automobile driving |
ISBN | : |
Engines of Change
Author | : Paul Ingrassia |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2012-05-01 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 145164065X |
A narrative like no other: a cultural history that explores how cars have both propelled and reflected the American experience— from the Model T to the Prius. From the assembly lines of Henry Ford to the open roads of Route 66, from the lore of Jack Kerouac to the sex appeal of the Hot Rod, America’s history is a vehicular history—an idea brought brilliantly to life in this major work by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Paul Ingrassia. Ingrassia offers a wondrous epic in fifteen automobiles, including the Corvette, the Beetle, and the Chevy Corvair, as well as the personalities and tales behind them: Robert McNamara’s unlikely role in Lee Iacocca’s Mustang, John Z. DeLorean’s Pontiac GTO , Henry Ford’s Model T, as well as Honda’s Accord, the BMW 3 Series, and the Jeep, among others. Through these cars and these characters, Ingrassia shows how the car has expressed the particularly American tension between the lure of freedom and the obligations of utility. He also takes us through the rise of American manufacturing, the suburbanization of the country, the birth of the hippie and the yuppie, the emancipation of women, and many more fateful episodes and eras, including the car’s unintended consequences: trial lawyers, energy crises, and urban sprawl. Narrative history of the highest caliber, Engines of Change is an entirely edifying new way to look at the American story.