Preston Tucker And His Battle To Build The Car Of Tomorrow

Author : Steve Lehto,Jay Leno
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781613749562

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Preston Tucker and His Battle to Build the Car of Tomorrow by Steve Lehto,Jay Leno Pdf

In the wake of World War II, the U.S. automobile industry was fully unprepared to meet the growing demands of the public, for whom they had not made any cars for years. In stepped Preston Tucker, a salesman extraordinaire who announced the building of a revolutionary new car: the Tucker '48, the first car in almost a decade to be built fresh from the ground up. Tucker's car, which would include ingenious advances in design and engineering that other car companies could not match, captured the interest of the public, and automakers in Detroit took notice. Here, author Steve Lehto tackles Tucker's amazing story, relying on a huge trove of documents that has been used by no other writer to date. It is the first comprehensive, authoritative account of Tucker's magnificent car and his battles with the government. And in this book, Lehto finally answers the question automobile aficionados have wondered about for decades: exactly how and why the production of such an innovative car was killed.

Author : Philip S. Egan
Publisher : On Mark
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015021974806

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Design and Destiny by Philip S. Egan Pdf

Author : Steve Lehto,Jay Leno
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781569767719

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Chrysler's Turbine Car by Steve Lehto,Jay Leno Pdf

Offering a behind-the-scenes look into the world of automotive research and development in the 1960s, this engaging narrative traces the birth of Chrysler’s alternative “jet” car and reveals the story behind its sudden and mysterious demise. Relying on extensive research and firsthand accounts from surviving members of the turbine car program—including the metallurgist who created the exotic metals for the engine and the test driver who drove it at Chrysler's proving grounds—this chronicle documents the bold development of an automobile with a jet turbine engine. In addition to running well on virtually any flammable liquid—including kerosene, vodka, heating oil, and Chanel N°5 perfume—the pioneering engines had one fifth the number of moving parts and required less maintenance than conventional engines. Despite the fleet’s amazing performance over millions of miles by test drivers, Chrysler pulled the plug on the project and crushed almost all of the cars. The reasons behind the surprising end to the jet car fleet are finally explained here.

Author : Ray Newell
Publisher : Veloce Publishing Ltd
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-18
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781787113541

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Morris Minor by Ray Newell Pdf

Ray Newell is a recognised authority on the Morris Minor, having written extensively on the subject over a number of years, and is a true enthusiast with a wealth of experience in owning, driving and restoring this popular car. He is also the National Secretary of the UK-based Morris Minor Owners’ Club, a position he has held since 1983. For this book Ray has drawn on his expansive personal collection − as well as those of fellow enthusiasts – to bring the Morris Minor story up to date, looking at why the Morris Minor is one of the most popular classic cars, and an enduring favourite with owners throughout the world. Ray’s other books include the Morris Minor Essential Buyer's Guide in the popular Veloce series.

Author : Hamish McKenzie
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781101985977

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Insane Mode by Hamish McKenzie Pdf

A USA Today New and Noteworthy Title “You’ll tell me if it ever starts getting genuinely insane, right?”—Elon Musk, TED interview Hamish McKenzie tells how a Silicon Valley start-up's wild dream came true. Tesla is a car company that stood up against not only the might of the government-backed Detroit car manufacturers but also the massive power of Big Oil and its benefactors, the infamous Koch brothers. The award-winning Tesla Model 3, a premium mass-market electric car that went on sale in 2018, has reconfigured the popular perception of Tesla and continues to transform the public's relationship with motor vehicles—much like Ford's Model T did nearly a century ago. At the same time, company CEO Elon Musk courts controversy and spars with critics through his Twitter account, just as Tesla's ever-increasing debt teeters on junk bond status.... As McKenzie's rigorously reported account shows, Tesla has triggered frenzied competition from newcomers and traditional automakers alike, but it retains an edge because of its expansive infrastructure and the stupendous battery factory it built in the Nevada desert. The popularity of electric cars is growing around the world, especially in China, and McKenzie interviews little-known titans who have the money and the market access to power a global electric car revolution quickly and decisively. Insane Mode started off as a feature on the dual-motor Tesla Model S, which gave the car Ferrari-like acceleration, but it's also the perfect description of the operating cycle of a company that has sworn it won't rest until every car on the road is electric. Here is a story about the very best kind of American ingenuity and its history-making potential. Buckle up!

Author : Brock Yates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001895254

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The Decline and Fall of the American Automobile Industry by Brock Yates Pdf

Analyzes the reasons for the failures of the American auto industry to compete with foreign imports and to make use of modern technology and styling.

Author : Thomas E. Bonsall
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0804746540

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Disaster in Dearborn by Thomas E. Bonsall Pdf

Tells the disastrous story of the design and development of the Edsel, with insights into this spectacular failure of the automobile industry to sell a car that it had marketed extensively.

Author : John Heitmann
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-31
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781476669359

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The Automobile and American Life, 2d ed. by John Heitmann Pdf

Now revised and updated, this book tells the story of how the automobile transformed American life and how automotive design and technology have changed over time. It details cars' inception as a mechanical curiosity and later a plaything for the wealthy; racing and the promotion of the industry; Henry Ford and the advent of mass production; market competition during the 1920s; the development of roads and accompanying highway culture; the effects of the Great Depression and World War II; the automotive Golden Age of the 1950s; oil crises and the turbulent 1970s; the decline and then resurgence of the Big Three; and how American car culture has been represented in film, music and literature. Updated notes and a select bibliography serve as valuable resources to those interested in automotive history.

Author : Robert Bruegmann
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780300229936

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Art Deco Chicago by Robert Bruegmann Pdf

An expansive take on American Art Deco that explores Chicago's pivotal role in developing the architecture, graphic design, and product design that came to define middle-class style in the twentieth century Frank Lloyd Wright’s lost Midway Gardens, the iconic Sunbeam Mixmaster, and Marshall Field’s famed window displays: despite the differences in scale and medium, each belongs to the broad current of an Art Deco style that developed in Chicago in the first half of the twentieth century. This ambitious overview of the city’s architectural, product, industrial, and graphic design between 1910 and 1950 offers a fresh perspective on a style that would come to represent the dominant mode of modernism for the American middle class. Lavishly illustrated with 325 images, the book narrates Art Deco’s evolution in 101 key works, carefully curated and chronologically organized to tell the story of not just a style but a set of sensibilities. Critical essays from leading figures in the field discuss the ways in which Art Deco created an entire visual universe that extended to architecture, advertising, household objects, clothing, and even food design. Through this comprehensive approach to one of the 20th century’s most pervasive modes of expression in America, Art Deco Chicago provides an essential overview of both this influential style and the metropolis that came to embody it.

Author : Dimitry Anastakis
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-26
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781487555856

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Dream Car by Dimitry Anastakis Pdf

Dream Car tells the story of entrepreneur Malcolm Bricklin’s fantastical 1970s-era Safety Vehicle-1 (SV1), audaciously launched during a tumultuous breakpoint in postwar history. The tale of the sexy-yet-safe SV1 reveals the influence of automobiles on ideas about the future, technology, entrepreneurship, risk, safety, showmanship, politics, sex, gender, business, and the state, as well as the history of the auto industry’s birth, decline, and rebirth. Written as an “open road,” the book invites readers to travel a narrative arc that unfolds chronologically and thematically. Dream Car’s seven chapters have been structured so that they can be read in any order, determined by whichever theme each reader finds most interesting. The book also includes a musical playlist of car songs from the era and songs about the SV1 itself.

Author : Mary E. Lyons
Publisher : Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0689846401

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Roy Makes a Car by Mary E. Lyons Pdf

"If Roy Can't Fix It, Nobody Can" Down in Eatonville, Florida, there's a man who can clean spark plugs just by looking at them hard, and who can grease an axle faster than you can say "carburetor." Folks round those parts claim Roy Tyle might just be the best mechanic in the world. But Roy, you know, he never can find an automobile made to suit him. He figures, if a car was built right, there wouldn't be so many collisions out on the road. And so when Roy -- that wonder-making man -- says he's going to make an accident-proof car, there's no telling what he'll cook up behind his double-locked doors.... Based on a tall tale collected by legendary African-American writer Zora Neale Hurston, Mary E. Lyons's souped-up story is perfectly complemented by Terry Widener's bold, dramatic illustrations.

Author : David Knowles
Publisher : The Crowood Press
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781785001383

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Triumph TR6 by David Knowles Pdf

This book tells the life story of the much-loved Triumph TR6 in unprecedented detail, bringing to life the genesis and magnificent history of one of the most-loved British sports cars of its era. Covering the design, development and manufacture of the car as well as its motorsport history, it shows how this last bastion of traditional British sports car motoring went against the grain of troubled automotive times, outstripping its predecessors in sales and popularity. Triumph TR6 - The Complete Story is dedicated to the last traditional open-topped TR sports car - one of the most-loved British sports cars of its era and will be of great interest to motoring and Triumph enthusiasts. The book gives full details of the much-loved Triumph TR6 from 1969-1976, including design, development and manufacture as well as its motorsport history.Superbly illustrated with nearly 400 colour photographs.

Author : Steve Lehto
Publisher : Momentum Books LLC
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015067638489

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Death's Door by Steve Lehto Pdf

Uses historical documents to conclude that at a party in 1913 for the children of copper miners who were on strike, someone supporting the mine owners yelled "fire" and fled, causing a rush that left seventy-three children dead.

Author : Jadranka Skorin-Kapov
Publisher : Springer
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319893334

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Professional and Business Ethics Through Film by Jadranka Skorin-Kapov Pdf

This book considers ethical issues arising in professional and business settings and the role of individuals making decisions and coping with moral dilemmas. Readers can benefit from engagement in filmic narratives, as a simulated environment for developing a stance towards ethical challenges. The book starts by elaborating on critical thinking and on normative ethical theories, subsequently presenting the structure and cinematic elements of narrative film. These two avenues are tools for evaluating films and for discussions on various ethical problems in contemporary business, including: the corporate and banking financial machinations (greed, fraud, social responsibility); workplace ethical challenges (harassment, violence, inequity, inequality); professional and business ethical challenges (corruption, whistleblowing, outsourcing, downsizing, competition, and innovation); environmental and social issues; international business and human rights; and personal responsibility and identity challenges due to career pressures, loss of privacy and cyber harassment, and job structure changes in light of changing technology.

Author : Alan Naldrett
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625856494

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Lost Car Companies of Detroit by Alan Naldrett Pdf

Among more than two hundred auto companies that tried their luck in the Motor City, just three remain: Ford, General Motors and Chrysler. But many of those lost to history have colorful stories worth telling. For instance, J.J. Cole forgot to put brakes in his new auto, so on the first test run, he had to drive it in circles until it ran out of gas. Brothers John and Horace Dodge often trashed saloons during wild evenings but used their great personal wealth to pay for the damage the next day (if they could remember where they had been). David D. Buick went from being the founder of his own leading auto company to working the information desk at the Detroit Board of Trade. Author Alan Naldrett explores these and more tales of automakers who ultimately failed but shaped the industry and designs putting wheels on the road today.