Download or read book Automotive giants of America written by Bertie Charles Forbes and published by Edizioni Savine. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION (1926): Curiosly, although our automobile industry is young, its leaders are not young men. Every one of the twenty is self-made. No other industry in this country or anywhere else in the world ever enjoyed such growth or accomplished so much in the brief space of twenty-five years. Our automotive giants are essentially men of courage, men of initiative, men of vision. How else could there have been created productive capacity of over 5,000,000 vehicles a year, when year after year from the very start there have been direful prophesies of impending "saturation", of impending disaster? How the foremost leaders have brought the automotive industry to its unique eminence is told in short stories, all of which have appeared in Forbes Magazine, half of them written by B. C. Forbes and half by O. D. Foster.

Download or read book The Triumph of an Idea The Story of Henry Ford written by Ralph Henry Graves and published by Edizioni Savine. This book was released on 2013-05-17 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION (1934): The advent of the automobile brought a clash of industrial ideas. Should the new vehicle be high priced, obtainable only by the wealthy? Or should it be a vehicle of service to all humanity-within reach of the pocketbook of every family? Henry Ford's answer was the Model T, which became known as the "Universal Car" and of which he manufactured more than 15,000,000. With the Ford car available to the millions, there sprang up a nation-wide demand for better roads. The Ford car proved a great social factor in the development and growth of the American people. And the story of the founding, success, and growth of the Ford Motor Co., giving the world, as it did, its first great picture of modern mass production, is an industrial epic which this volume attempts to tell. It is a story of facts that less than a generation ago would have been a fairy tale. Illustrated by 52 photographs.

Download or read book The Car of 1912 THE LOCOMOBILE written by Locomobile Company Of America and published by Edizioni Savine. This book was released on 2014-02-28 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea back of the Locomobile Book is to tell the story of the Locomobile, its record and development, its design and construction, its advantages as a comfortable and luxurious vehicle, its superiority as a safe and reliable machine. Locomobile models for 1912 are the result of our thirteen years' experience in making motor cars. (1911 - The Authors)

Download or read book PEUGEOT Guide written by Sloniger and published by Edizioni Savine. This book was released on 2014-07-23 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION (1961): “ ...The rampant lion of Peugeot is really no newcomer to America. Modern Peugeot fans tend to date their pleasure from a March day in 1958, when the New York Motor Show opened its doors. A key display, to their way of thinking, was that of Peugeot; these were the first of the renowned 403 models to reach American hands on regular shipment from the French factory. But those “pioneer” buyers who thought themselves the first to recognize a worthy newcomer back in 1958 shouldn’t take their bows too soon. That year was really Act II in the tale of Peugeot In America. The initial new world conquests carry much earlier datelines. The lion’s first invasion dates clear back to 1913, when the Peugeot name was suddenly emblazoned in American motor sports headlines by a French race driver named Jules Goux.... .... If you want a symbol for Peugeot, apart from that golden lion, try a family tree. Both the management and the product draw their special qualities from an unbroken lineage rooted in an era that never even heard of the automobile...”

Download or read book The Book of Sports Cars France and Germany written by Charles Lam Markmann and published by Edizioni Savine. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “... This is a book for which lovers of the automobile have waited a long time: the most comprehensive text-and-picture history of the dual-purpose car since it came to life more than sixty years ago. As the authors of The Book of Sports Cars point out, “in the beginning they were all sports cars.” The automobile began its active life, whatever the intentions of its creators, as a new instrument of sport. Because the increasing demands of this sport imposed an ever-growing burden of technical development, the sports car and its achievements have never stopped forwarding the improvement of the everyday automobile. Here at last, evolved from years of painstaking research, is a record of what the world’s motorists owe to the dreams and the daring of the men and women of motor sport. In arranging the history of the outstanding marques by countries of origin, the authors have made it plain how first one nation, then another took the lead in developing the automobile as a sporting instrument and hence inevitably as a thing of greater common use and benefit. First Germany led the world, then France, then Great Britain and Italy and the United States. The Book of Sports Cars is a magnificent tribute to the glorious past and the exciting present, a fascinating record of the history that points to the challenging future. A book to be read for pleasure and profit, it will be an invaluable addition to the library of every enthusiast of motoring history...” (1959) - BRIGGS CUNNINGHAM

Download or read book TRIUMPH Guide written by Dave Allen and published by Edizioni Savine. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION (1959): “ ... The Triumph Company has apparently always been in a hurry to get from one place to another. It began as a manufacturer of cycles back in the leisurely days of 1895. Triumph had established an excellent reputation for its motorcycles. Before World War I they had earned the rather apt sobriquet: “Frisky.” One can well imagine that with speedy, reliable motorcycles tooling about the countryside making a name for themselves, a light car would loom next on the horizon for Triumph. This was exactly the case. In 1931, the Triumph Cycle Company, having at last decided that they were in the automobile business for good, shortened their name to The Triumph Company...” The legendary TR series of sports cars, competition results, tuning and maintenance for everyday and racing.

Download or read book Diesel The Modern Power written by Ralph A. Richardson and published by Edizioni Savine. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “ ... The police, the newspapers and the public have long ago ceased to be interested in the fate of Dr. Diesel, who mysteriously disappeared in the fall of 1913. The present dramatic performances of the Diesel engine, which is playing such an important part in railroad, marine, bus, truck, and power plant development, makes the story back of the early work on this engine again of interest.... ... Diesel engines played a large and important part in World War II. Landing boats and submarines, tanks, tractors and generator sets in these and hundreds of other applications the Diesel made its mark and demonstrated its untold possibilities for the future ... ... But the real contribution that Diesel will make to our way of living is only on the threshold. The progress that is being made today outstrips by far the past history of Diesel accomplishments. A new industry is just beginning to come of age Diesel, the Modern Power .” (1950 - Staff GENERAL MOTORS)

Download or read book The Bugatti Story written by William Boddy and published by Edizioni Savine. This book was released on 2013-08-19 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “... Ettore Bugatti was by common consent one of the most brilliant designers ever to work in the automotive field. He produced a greater range of models than any other single designer ever has done: racing machines, sports cars and limousines, automobiles of all sizes ... ... The Bugatti was probably the most sought-after and admired pre-World War II car existing, the world over... ... Ettore Bugatti mad inventor or mechanical genius ? Viewed from the point of view of his car designs and productions, he was certainly a mechanical genius ...” (1960 - W. Boddy) In this new digital edition, have been included links to the original Bugatti patents (complete documentation). The contents of the ebook also relate the victories, the types of cars, family albums, and everything about the Bugatti story.

Download or read book RENAULT Guide written by Sloniger and published by Edizioni Savine. This book was released on 2014-10-08 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “ ... There you have the basic Renaults and a few of their infinite variations. This book is just a start on the fun and frosting available for the Renault 750, Renault Caravelle and Renault Dauphine. Your experiences and your list can carry on from here, using this book as its name implies: a Guide to the automobiles that come from France’s largest industry. I can only perform the introduction : Ladies and Gentlemen—The Renault ...” (1960 – Sloniger)

Download or read book Great Racing Drivers of the World written by HANS TANNER and published by Edizioni Savine. This book was released on 2012-02-22 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION (1958): Biographical sketches of 37 of the most famous Grand Prix and sports car racing drivers. Included are all of the old-time greats as well as those who have made names for themselves in the past few years.The author touches on each man’s background, his temperaments and style, and then traces his racing career, detailing his most brilliant and exciting drives.There are, in addition, more than 80 superb photographs, most of them action shots of the drivers in Grand Prix events.Hans Tanner has known most of the men he writes about and has seen them race. He has managed the Swiss, Belgian, and Spanish national teams and some American teams. He has also managed individual drivers, among them Harry Schell and the Marquis de Portago. International correspondent for English, Swiss, and Argentine magazines, Tanner is also the author of Ferrari and Maserati in Action. He has even been the organizer for sports car races in Central America.

Download or read book MERCEDES BENZ Guide written by Karl Ludvigsen and published by Edizioni Savine. This book was released on 2014-08-06 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “ In view of the number of volumes that have been produced in recent years about Germany’s most famous auto maker, it must seem presumptuous to add yet another to the stack. Being relatively thin, this one had to be different. It devotes itself to Mercedes-Benz cars and the most specific and personal aspects of their development, performance and maintenance, at the unavoidable sacrifice of portions of the long history of this great firm. The fascinating story of Mercedes racing has been told by George Monkhouse, Laurence Pomeroy Jr. and S. C. H. Davis, among others, while the fine successes of 1954 and 1955 are still familiar to most readers. I’ve chosen to concentrate on several Mercedes and Benz racing machines that were extremely interesting and productive yet remain virtually unknown today. At the other end of the performance scale the distinctive Mercedes diesels are covered completely...” (1959 - Karl E. Ludvigsen)

Download or read book Ten Years Of Motors And Motor Racing written by Charles Jarrott and published by Edizioni Savine. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “ ...When the idea of this book was first suggested to me, although I had no misgivings as to the interest of its subject for myself and those immediately concerned, I had some misgiving as to my ability to make it interesting to the general reader. I may say that this misgiving is by no means abated now that I see the finished result of my labours. But I felt a very earnest wish, which will be understood by those who have ever been in the thick of any exciting or momentous experience, to preserve, if only for my own satisfaction, some record of the early days of the motor-car in England and my own experiences in connection therewith, and to reconstruct some of the events of those exciting days before my impression of them should become blurred. In this way my book may perhaps come some day to have an interest of its own, when the world shall have forgotten that the thing we call the Motor Movement ever had a beginning ...” Charles Jarrott - September, 1906. (Charles Jarrott was an English racing car driver. He won the 1902 Circuit des Ardennes race and competed in the 1903 and 1904 Gordon Bennett Cup races.)

Download or read book A Power Primer An Introduction to the Internal Combustion Engine written by Public Relations Staff GENERAL MOTORS and published by Edizioni Savine. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “ ... This might be called a "sketch book of engines." Pictures have been substituted for words wherever possible, and the technical language has been held to a minimum. Most people today have at least a nodding acquaintance with the internal combustion engine. To the great majority it is what makes an automobile go. But to others it may be the motive power for a tractor or truck, a cruiser or a tug-boat, a fighter plane or a transport. It may furnish power and light to an isolated farm, to a saw-mill in the woods, or to an entire city. For today the internal combustion engine has invaded all fields, from the bottom of the ocean to the limits of the heavens. We will demonstrate that they all are based on three things AIR, FUEL and IGNITION. We need those three things to make any internal combustion engine run. We have rather arbitrarily classified them in three groups: automobile, aircraft, and Diesel...” (1955 - Public Relations Staff GENERAL MOTORS)

Download or read book The Turning Wheel The story of General Motors through twenty five years 1908 1933 written by Arthur Pound and published by Edizioni Savine. This book was released on 2013-12-09 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “ ...GENERAL MOTORS in 1933 reached its twenty-fifth milestone. Since the founding of General Motors Company of New Jersey in 1908, the growth of the organization has contributed a unique chapter to American industrial history. From beginnings so small that its birth escaped notice in financial centers, General Motors has worked its way steadily forward to a place where its leadership in many of the most exacting branches of production and distribution is taken for granted and where it meets the public of many lands with a wide variety of merchandise and services. Scientific research, close attention to dealer and consumer needs, and constructive public policies are among the factors accounting for General Motors' present strength. My acquaintance with General Motors began at its birth in 1908, and as a somewhat impartial observer of social trends I have watched its progress with keen interest ever since” ARTHUR POUND - 1934

Download or read book The National Union Catalogs 1963 written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Wall Smacker The saga of the speedway written by Peter De Paolo and published by Edizioni Savine. This book was released on 2013-11-29 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “ ...The pages that follow are not offered as an attempt at literary style or excellence. I am far from being a writer, and, to tell the truth, “Wall Smacker” was the hardest task I’ve ever undertaken. It was my good fortune, however, to have had my career as an automobile racing driver during a glamorous and pioneering period of the sport era both in America and on the Continent that produced many immortals of the “Roaring Road,” and was packed with events and incidents of unusual interest to all followers of speed. Many of my friends, realizing this, have urged me repeatedly to write my reminiscences in the form of an autobiography. Here, at last they are. I’ll feel fully repaid for my efforts if this book is entertaining, and happy, indeed, if it serves to keep alive at least a few of the episodes of a great chapter in the history of American automobile racing...” Peter De Paolo - November 1st, 1935. (Peter De Paolo was the American race car driver who won the 1925 Indianapolis 500)

Download or read book JAGUAR The complete Story of the famous Jaguar Car written by John Bentley and published by Edizioni Savine. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION (1957): “ ... A thorough and detailed account of the development of one of the world’s finest sports cars. The author discusses every sports model the company has produced, from the early SS-90 to the D and the XK-SS. Engineering, design, performance, racing records—nothing is omitted. There is even a chapter on the people who build the Jags. And then, finally, the book contains complete maintenance and servicing information and technical data for every model. A guide in every sense of the word—one that all Jag owners and would-be owners will read with pleasure and profit. John Bentley’s numerous articles and books on sports cars, published both in the U.S. and in Europe, have earned him international recognition as an authority on this subject. No writer is better qualified to tell the fascinating story of the Jaguar car.”