Budd Car RDC Story

Budd Car the RDC Story by Crouse Chuck Weekend Chief, 1990, unstated ed. ISBN: 0961281421 Hardback in good condition, with acceptable dust jacket. Text is clean and unmarked, binding tight. Cover is clean however does show some slight signs of wear, there is inscription inside cover thanking person for contributions to book but does not appear to be by author. This is the complete history of the self propelled car. These first came into use in the 1890ies and by 1915 it had been perfected to a degree that these early cars were called doodlebugs. By the 1920ies the Budd company had started to build airplanes in stainless steel which lead to some auto work and then to train cars. Doodlebugs were heavy and by 1931 Budd had delivered a stainless steel car to the Reading Pa railroad. This is the history of the Budd self propelled cars. Loaded with color photos, charts, list of cars and owners, ads, index, 225. pages.