American Auto Factory - Hardcover

Barney Olsen; Joseph P. Cabadas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0760310599 ISBN 13: 9780760310595

Publisher: Motorbooks International, 2002

Synopsis

Witness the evolution of the American auto factory beginning with the basic hand-built assembly of cars built in the earliest part of the twentieth century, through the age of the assembly line, up to today's robotically-operated lines. Large photographs of the assembly lines in action send readers into nostalgic old factories. See the workers, the tools, the methods and the machines that combined their efforts with the ingenuity of industry players like Henry Ford, Ransom Olds. Walter Chrysler, and others to make possible the automobile's worldwide proliferation and availability. Flash back in time to witness the factories decade by decade in never-before published vintage photographs. Featured automakers include Ford, GM and Chrysler, along with smaller companies like Packard, Studebaker, Duesenberg and Auburn. Significant automotive industry events of the past combined with today's technological advances deliver a dynamic photographic look at the auto factories of yesterday and today.

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Review:

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), March 13, 2006 (combined circ.: 100,000) An exciting pictorial jaunt through the history of American automobile manufacturing If you like cars, you’ll want to add this 192-page, large-format book to your collection.”

About this edition

• Publisher: Motorbooks International
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0760310599
• ISBN 13: 9780760310595
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Dennis Pernu