A History of Coachbuilding
Author : George Arthur Oliver
Publisher :
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,52 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Automobiles
ISBN :
Author : George Arthur Oliver
Publisher :
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,52 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Automobiles
ISBN :
Author : George Athelstane Thrupp
Publisher : London, Kerby & Endean
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,77 MB
Release : 1877
Category : Carriages and carts
ISBN :
A history of coaches and carriages.
Author : Jonathan Wood
Publisher : Shire Publications
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 43,77 MB
Release : 2009-03-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780747806882
This account examines the history of coachbuilding, beginning with the coachbuilders who for generations had built horse-drawn wooden carriages, and then explaining how they turned their craft to building the bodywork of the first motorised cars. Using photographs of the different stages of coachbuilding, the author describes the materials, equipment and key techniques involved. Today the profession of coachbuilding is almost a lost art, yet as the restoration of vintage cars seeks to keep the trade alive, this book reflects back on the heyday of the coachbuilt motor car and the skilled workers that made it their craft.
Author : Peter M. Larsen
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,25 MB
Release : 2018-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781854432919
The Kellner Affair tells the fascinating story of some of the most influential people in the French luxury car business before the War and how they came together and fought bravely against the Nazi occupation force in Paris. it tells how they formed a resistance group an gathered intelligence - how they were betrayed by double agents, and how they were executed in 1942.
Author : George Arthur Oliver
Publisher :
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 39,51 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Automobiles
ISBN :
Author : Nick Walker
Publisher : Bay View Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,84 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Automobile industry and trade
ISBN : 9781870979931
A-Z of British Coachbuilders 1919-1960 Nick WalkerSubtitled: And the Development of Styles & Techniques. Walker provides an A-Z chronicle of some 25 known British coachbuilders, from the famous to the little known, with details of their history and products. Includes advice on assessing the condition of a coachbuilt body today, plus a glossary of coachbuilding terms. Hdbd., 7 1/2x 1 1/4, 28 pgs., 355 b&w ill., 5 color.
Author : G A. OLIVER
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 32,97 MB
Release : 1962
Category :
ISBN :
Author : George Athelstane Thrupp
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 15,82 MB
Release : 2024-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385552982
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Author : James Taylor
Publisher : Herridge & Sons Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,11 MB
Release : 2020-01-21
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781906133894
Rolls-Royce and Bentley relied upon standardised body designs after 1945, but for the next two decades both marques also supplied chassis frames separately, and it was possible to have these clothed with coachwork by bespoke coachbuilders like, for example, Mulliner, Park Ward and James Young in Britain, or Graber, Farina and Franay in Europe. Many buyers took this route, and this highly illustrated book bears witness to the wide variety of styles that were built in this fascinating period. Chassis number lists for each coachbuilder, both in Britain and overseas, identify their creations, to make this a comprehensive and essential companion for anyone interested in Rolls-Royce and Bentley in the postwar era. Coachwork on Rolls-Royce and Bentley, 1945-1965 joins the author’s recent work Coachwork on Derby Bentleys 1933-1940 in our list.
Author : William Knoedelseder
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 26,51 MB
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0062289098
The New York Times bestselling author of Bitter Brew chronicles the birth and rise to greatness of the American auto industry through the remarkable life of Harley Earl, an eccentric six-foot-five, stuttering visionary who dropped out of college and went on to invent the profession of automobile styling, thereby revolutionized the way cars were made, marketed, and even imagined. Harleys Earl’s story qualifies as a bona fide American family saga. It began in the Michigan pine forest in the years after the Civil War, traveled across the Great Plains on the wooden wheels of a covered wagon, and eventually settled in a dirt road village named Hollywood, California, where young Harley took the skills he learned working in his father’s carriage shop and applied them to designing sleek, racy-looking automobile bodies for the fast crowd in the burgeoning silent movie business. As the 1920s roared with the sound of mass manufacturing, Harley returned to Michigan, where, at GM’s invitation, he introduced art into the rigid mechanics of auto-making. Over the next thirty years, he functioned as a kind of combination Steve Jobs and Tom Ford of his time, redefining the form and function of the country’s premier product. His impact was profound. When he retired as GM’s VP of Styling in 1958, Detroit reigned as the manufacturing capitol of the world and General Motors ranked as the most successful company in the history of business. Knoedelseder tells the story in ways both large and small, weaving the history of the company with the history of Detroit and the Earl family as Fins examines the effect of the automobile on America’s economy, culture, and national psyche.