History

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781600780899Author Terry BlountFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Triumph BooksPublisher Triumph BooksWeight(grams) 517g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642341638Author Wayne G. Broehl, JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 590Imprint Octane PressPublisher Octane Press

In the first years of the twentieth century, motoring across the vast expanses west of the Mississippi was at the very least an adventure and at most an audacious stunt. As more motorists ventured forth, such travel became a curiosity and, within a few...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645584322Author Publications International LtdFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Publications International, Ltd.Publisher Publications International,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621064862Author Andy SingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Microcosm PublishingPublisher Microcosm PublishingWeight(grams) 168g

May 1927 saw the abandonment of Chesterfield's trams and replacement with trolleybuses. These only lasted until March 1938, bringing an end to a form of transport never to return to this Derbyshire town. This history of the system includes many...

Hitler's autobahn was more than just the pet project of an infrastructure-friendly dictator. It was supposed to revolutionize the transportation sector in Germany, connect the metropoles with the countryside, and encourage motorization. The propaganda...

Hitler's autobahn was more than just the pet project of an infrastructure-friendly dictator. It was supposed to revolutionize the transportation sector in Germany, connect the metropoles with the countryside, and encourage motorization. The propaganda...

Why has “car society” proven so durable, even in the face of mounting environmental and economic crises? In this follow-up to his magisterial Atlantic Automobilism, Gijs Mom traces the global spread of the automobile in the postwar era and investigates...

This is a potted history of the Jowett car company's distinctive advertising from the days when owning a Jowett was cheaper than walking.Book InformationISBN 9780752435350Author Noel StokoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press...

The Cadillac story is more than the story of a car company. It is, in many ways, the story of the American automobile industry itself- which, as much as any industry, drove America's growth in the twentieth century and defined who we are as a people:...

Lincoln's heritage is as rich as that of any car built anywhere in the world, and more impressive than all but a few. The Continental produced in the 1940s was one of the first cars to be universally recognized by classic car cognoscenti. The list of...

This book illustrates with rare, vintage photographs the birth of three- and four-wheeled internal combustion, steam, and electric motor vehicles from the years 1894-1907. These superb quality images depict the large and unusual variety of vehicles in...

Image archivist and transportation historian Jim Harter follows his work, Early Farm Tractors, with an even larger collection of images from advertising line art from 1880 to 1930, this time focused on Early Automobiles. Nearly 250 entrancing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626401235Author Darryl HolterFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Angel City Press,U.S.Publisher Angel City Press,U.S.

Based on interview with more than 100 current and former female GM employees, discusses the role women have played in the American auto industry, a traditionally male-dominated industry. An authoritative guide to the role women have played in the...

L'histoire de la premiere Porche, la 356, de sa creation en 1948 a la fin de la production en 1965.Book InformationISBN 9782840485339Author Christian DescombesFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Editions HeimdalPublisher Editions Heimdal

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786463732Author John B HegeFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint McFarland & CompanyPublisher McFarland & Company

Now in Paperback! Carroll Shelby, legendary driving ace, race team owner, and designer of Shelby Cobra, Daytona, and Mustang GT350 classics is revered by automotive enthusiasts, yet little has been written about the last quarter century of Carroll...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613255469Author Patrick KrookFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint CarTech IncPublisher CarTech Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613255810Author Patrick FosterFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint CarTech IncPublisher CarTech Inc

Before the Big Three," even before the Model T, the race for dominance in the American car market was fierce, fast, and sometimes farcical. Car Crazy takes readers back to the passionate and reckless years of the early automobile era, from 1893,...

From its invention in Europe at the end of the nineteenth century, the automobile crisscrossed the world, completely took over the cities, and became a feature of daily life. Considered basic to the American lifestyle, the car reflected individualism,...

In its updated second edition, this book tells the story of how the automobile transformed American life and how automotive design and technology have changed over time. The author covers the cars' inception as a mechanical curiosity and later a...

While Americans prize the ability to get behind the wheel and hit the open road, they have not always agreed on what constitutes safe, decorous driving or who is capable of it. Mobility without Mayhem is a lively cultural history of America's fear of and...

Focusing on how cities have been torn down and remade based on the needs of the automobile and wars are fought to keep fuel tanks filled, this consideration looks closely at the country's obsession with cars. The argument contends that the automobile's...

The emergence of the motor car transformed the twentieth century. This illustrated book examines the earliest history of the motor age, explaining the first attempts to develop a self-propelled road vehicle. Often these early pioneers employed strange...

For eleven years prior to World War II, Cadillac defied the norms of practicality and produced an extravagant supercar, a 16-cylinder luxury automobile that could be tailored to the customer's every want. Big, thirsty and lavish, it cemented...

A fascinating history of how the automotive industry and consumers battled to define what women wanted in a car.Since the commercial introduction of the automobile, US automakers have always sought women as customers and advertised accordingly. How,...

The BMW E34 5 Series is considered one of the most impressive car designs to come out of the 1980s. With some 180 photographs, this complete guide to this iconic vehicle. The BMW E34 5 Series became the benchmark executive saloon during its eight-year...

Steam-driven locomotives played a major role in the 19th century where they took over the heavy haulage tasks from horses and ushered a new era in the history of transport. This book celebrates the many remarkable examples of these vehicles. It features...

Get an inside look at the American automaker that rose from the decline of a once-thriving independent auto industry to put up a valiant fight against Detroit’s Big Three automakers. In The Complete Book of AMC Cars: American Motors Corporation...

In this lively and entertaining work, Witold Rybczynski—hailed as “one of the best writers on design working today” by Publishers Weekly—tells the story of the most distinctive cars in history and the artists, engineers, dreamers, and gearheads who...

Get the full story of the original pony car in this expertly written, Ford-licensed, and stunningly illustrated Mustang history featuring commissioned photography as well as images from Ford’s archives. Performance and competition were in the air at Ford...

Glory, scandal, downfall, fame, and rebirth—discover the dramatic story of the rebel auto industry titan behind the stainless-steel-bodied, gull-winged sports car we all know and love from Back to the Future. The tale you thought you knew:...