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American Automobile Manufacturers: The First Forty Years

American Automobile Manufacturers: The First Forty Years

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An academic history of the American automobile industry through its first four decades, by John B. Rae of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, covering the founders of the industry, the Selden patent dispute, the rise of mass production, and the careers of Ford, Durant, Sloan, Chrysler and Nash. Published by Chilton in 1959, it remains a standard scholarly reference on the early American motor industry. This copy retains its original dust jacket, which depicts portrait photographs of Ford, Sloan, Chrysler, Durant and Nash alongside a period vehicle.

  • Author: Rae, John B.
  • Publisher: Chilton Company — Book Division
  • Place: Philadelphia and New York
  • Year: 1959
  • Edition: [edition not stated on title page; first and only edition per research]
  • Physical: 22 x 15cm approx., 223pp, original cloth, illustrated with b&w photographs, dust jacket present
  • Condition: Good
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