Sutton, FelixBiblio.com
Sutton, FelixBiblio.com
The Big Book of Cars - Racing Cars Test Track Sport Cars Old Cars - Information and Authentic Pictures About All Types of Cars
1954réf. 19534New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1954. First Edition . Hard Back. Very Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. 9 1/4" x 13 1/4. Hill Tom - Pictures. 24 Un-Numbered Large Pages. Minor scuffing to top and bottom spine area. No other defects noted and interior text and illustration pages are near flawless. Colorful laminated wrap-around boards. Yellow endpapers with the logos of Ford Chrysler MG Hudson Austin Jaguar Buick Cadillac Rolls-Royce De Soto Pontiac Chevrolet Mercedes-Benz Mercury Lincoln Oldsmobile Studebaker Nash Dodge Kaiser Plymouth Willys and Packard. The pages are filled with very colorful photographs of many if not most pre-1954 Automobiles. Some examples 1898 Pope-Columbia Duryea 1903 Winton Ford Model-T Chrysler C-200 Convertible and all of the 1954 production cars. There is a Maserati that boasts of a powerful engine that develops 145 h.p. and a top speed of 150 mph. There is double spread of a colorful illustration How A Car Is Assembled that begins with a Stock Storage and ends with a Final Inspection. It takes eight hours and 38 minutes to put a body together. On the final assembly line it takes 87 minutes to turn a chassis into a finished car. There is a full page illustration on types of engines and another page demonstrating the power cycles. The pages for unusual cars includes Franklin Stutz Riker Hansom Cab Hewitt Electric Bus and the Cord. There are two pages of Traffic Signs and Rules of The Road. In 1954 there more American cars built than the rest of the world combined. Grosset & Dunlap hardcover
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