Author: BARNEY OLSEN
Gold Medal Winner!
2003 International Automotive Media Award (general automotive history).
The IAMA, a function of the International Society for Vehicle Preservation, recognizes and encourages excellence in all forms of automotive media.
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 todays 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 automobiles 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 todays technological advances deliver a dynamic photographic look at the auto factories of yesterday and today.
Hardcover, 12 x 9, 192 pp, 50 color and 200 b/w
Format: Hardbound
Pages: 192
Length: 12w x 9h
ISBN-13: 9780760310595
ISBN: 0760310599
Catalog ID: 134741AP