...operated by steam, hydro-carbon, electric and pneumatic motors. A practical treatise for automobilists, manufacturers, capitalists, investors and everyone interested in the development, use and care of the automobile including a special chapter on how to build an electric cab, with detail drawings.
This big, heavily illustrated volume covers a wide range of early auto history and technology. Chapters include: introduction, history, steam automobile appliances, specialties in automobile construction, steam propelled vehicles and automobile carriages, horseless vehicles with explosive motors, electric ignition devices, atomizing carburetors, operating devices and speed gears, motive power and running gear, automobile bicycles and tricycle, gasoline motor carriages and vehicles, electric motive power for vehicles, how to build an electric cab, general management of motor vehicles of all kinds, compressed air power for vehicles, miscellaneous, and lists of patents and manufacturers.
Included are drawings and photos of early steam carriages, burners, boilers, engines, marine engines, carriages, delivery trucks, Phaetons, Broughams, some of the machine tools to build autos, and much more.
The four page list of manufacturers is interesting in itself. Duryea, of course, was producing autos in Peoria, but so was the Peoria Rubber Mfg Co. Haynes-Apperson (remember the JackRabbit?) was operating in Kokomo. Marsh Motor Carriage was building in Brockton, MA. And hundreds more.
Price: $19.50
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