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The American auto factory / Byron Olsen and Joseph Cabadas ; foreword by Ben Hamper.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: St. Paul, MN : MBI Pub., 2002.Description: 192 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 x 31 cmISBN:
  • 0760310599 (hc. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.4/7629222/0973 21
LOC classification:
  • TL23 .O43 2002
Contents:
Introduction : internal combustion it is -- ch. 1. From the craft method to the birth of giants -- ch. 2. Working the assembly line -- ch. 3. Shaky foundations -- ch. 4. Perilous bargains -- ch. 5. Roaring into the Depression -- ch. 6. Unionizing the industry -- ch. 7. Girded for war -- ch. 8. Golden age to blue collar blues -- ch. 9. Japan rising -- ch. 10. Braving the new world -- Epilogue : production in the twenty-first century.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Oversize 338.47629222 O52 Available 33111003996408
Total holds: 0

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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.

Introduction : internal combustion it is -- ch. 1. From the craft method to the birth of giants -- ch. 2. Working the assembly line -- ch. 3. Shaky foundations -- ch. 4. Perilous bargains -- ch. 5. Roaring into the Depression -- ch. 6. Unionizing the industry -- ch. 7. Girded for war -- ch. 8. Golden age to blue collar blues -- ch. 9. Japan rising -- ch. 10. Braving the new world -- Epilogue : production in the twenty-first century.

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