Author : Timothy B. Spears
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,62 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300070668
Drawing on sources such as diaries, advice manuals and autobiographies, this work shows how travelling salesmen from the early-18th century to the 1920s shaped the customs of life on the road and helped to develop the modern consumer culture in the United States.
Author : Matt DeLorenzo
Publisher : Motorbooks International
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 29,54 MB
Release : 2014-06
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 076034552X
"Dodge 100 is the official, Dodge-licensed complete illustrated history of the legendary American automotive brand. From Horace and John Dodge's dealings with Henry Ford, through the war years, and into the modern age with cars like the Viper and Dodge Dart, Dodge 100 Years is the authoritative history of one of the world's first (and best) automakers"--
Author : Robert Gabrick
Publisher : Enthusiast Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,27 MB
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781583883105
Bringing Americans together by bus for 100 years, Greyhound is one of the top iconic names of the Twentieth Century with their running dog logo. It all started with Carl Wickman and partners when they offered a fare of 15 cents one way or 25 cents round-trip between Alice and Hibbing Minnesota, in a large Hupmobile -which was a hit amongst the iron mine workers. The business quickly prospered and eventually became the empire that it is today. Greyhound's goal of providing city to city service helped lead the country in bus travel, allowing the public a chance to sight-see coast-to-coast and border-to-border, visit far-away loved ones, or escape to vaster lands with greener pastures. By expanding bus lines, building bus depots and Post Houses, and with outstanding promotional efforts, Greyhound pioneered an industry. As the full story of the Greyhound company unfolds, the book is illustrated with wonderful old bus photos, artistic ads and timetables that depict a more fanciful era (one that made riding on a Greyhound romantic) and then takes a journey through the eras that follow (like the one with the famous Scenicruiser) and into today's modern buses.
Author : Cormac McCarthy
Publisher : Vintage Books
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 23,26 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307386457
In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity
Author : Carol Dawson
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 35,27 MB
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1623494567
On the eve of its centennial, Carol Dawson and Roger Allen Polson present almost 100 years of history and never-before-seen photographs that track the development of the Texas Highway Department. An agency originally created “to get the farmer out of the mud,” it has gone on to build the vast network of roads that now connects every corner of the state. When the Texas Highway Department (now called the Texas Department of Transportation or TxDOT) was created in 1917, there were only about 200,000 cars in Texas traveling on fewer than a thousand miles of paved roads. Today, after 100 years of the Texas Highway Department, the state boasts over 80,000 miles of paved, state-maintained roads that accommodate more than 25 million vehicles. Sure to interest history enthusiasts and casual readers alike, decades of progress and turmoil, development and disaster, and politics and corruption come together once more in these pages, which tell the remarkable story of an infrastructure 100 years in the making.
Author : Gretchen Sorin
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,66 MB
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1631495704
Bloomberg • Best Nonfiction Books of 2020: "[A] tour de force." The basis of a major PBS documentary by Ric Burns, this “excellent history” (The New Yorker) reveals how the automobile fundamentally changed African American life. Driving While Black demonstrates that the car—the ultimate symbol of independence and possibility—has always held particular importance for African Americans, allowing black families to evade the dangers presented by an entrenched racist society and to enjoy, in some measure, the freedom of the open road. Melding new archival research with her family’s story, Gretchen Sorin recovers a lost history, demonstrating how, when combined with black travel guides—including the famous Green Book—the automobile encouraged a new way of resisting oppression.
Author : Edith Pilcher
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 30,92 MB
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Bill Gates
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 20,52 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
In this clear-eyed, candid, and ultimately reassuring
Author : United States. Federal Highway Administration
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 33,25 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Government publications
ISBN :
Author : Andrew Noakes
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 22,80 MB
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1781319154
One of the most recognised and revered car brands, Bentley celebrates its centenary in 2019. In conjunction with the Bentley Drivers Club and the W.O. Bentley Memorial Foundation, 100 Years of Bentley is a lavish celebration of the company, from its earliest models right up the modern day cars. A six-times winner in the gruelling Le Mans 24-hour race, Bentley is also the brand behind iconic cars such as the 41/2-Litre ‘Blower’, the R-type Continental, and modern classics such as the Continental GT and Mulsanne. Featuring more than 200 pictures, many from the club’s archives and some never seen in print before, this beautiful book details the whole history of Bentley. From W.O. Bentley’s early days as a railway engineer along with his first attempts at modifying French DFP cars, to the company’s early racing exploits, including its victories in the early Le Mans races. Covering the Bentley brand’s revival in the 1980s and renewed impetus when it was acquired by the Volkswagen group, the story is brought up to date with the awesome new Bentleys built for the 21st century and the new era of electrification just around the corner.
