Automotive category: 1940 books
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
This important report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This book has been written for a widely diversified audience—those interested in the general history of our Nation's highways and those whose interest might be more narrowly confined...
by Edward Corbett
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
An Old Coachman's Chatter with some Practical Remarks on Driving
Nimrod has somewhere said that a good coachman could almost be perceived by the manner in which he put his gloves on, or words to that effect; but without going so far as that, I believe the way in which he mounts his box...
Getting Out of the Mud
The Alabama Good Roads Movement and Highway Administration, 1898–1928
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Martin T. Olliff recounts the history of the Good Roads Movement that arose in progressive-era Alabama, how it used the power of the state to achieve its objectives of improving market roads for farmers and highways for automobilists, and how state and federal highway administrations replaced the...
by Keith Crane, Jill E. Luoto, Scott Warren Harold
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
This report assesses the effectiveness of China’s industrial policies, using China’s commercial aviation manufacturing industry as a case study. It evaluates China’s efforts to create a national champion in this industry, and analyzes foreign manufacturers’ efforts to protect key technologies...
Rethinking America's Highways
A 21st-Century Vision for Better Infrastructure
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
Americans spend hours every day sitting in traffic. And the roads they idle on are often rough and potholed, their exits, tunnels, guardrails, and bridges in terrible disrepair. According to transportation expert Robert Poole, this congestion and deterioration are outcomes of the way America provides...
by Secret Entourage
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2011
How to Drive a Luxury Car for Free is an all inclusive guide for you to learn how to drive a luxury car at no cost. This book highlights all the basic concepts you need to be able to drive a luxury car without losing any money.This guide also includes 2 specific examples that the reader can...
by Secret Entourage
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2011
How to Drive an Exotic Car and get PAID is finally here. The long awaited guide to buying an exotic car, leveraging it and making a profit during and after the ownership is now available to you.This guide covers:- The background information needed for this undertaking this process- The specific...
A Driver’s Guide To Road Rage
Driving Tips On Road Rage Signs And Causes To Help You Understand Your Driving Behavior So You Can Control Your Stress Level Behind The Wheel And Apply Defensive Driving To Get Your Rage Off The Road!
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
You think you’re a decent and courteous driver but then sometimes when you get so tired you give in to your own frustration and find yourself shouting to another driver who took a little bit too long to react to the green light. Is it just aggressive driving or an act of road rage? Are you aware...
by Ron Kowalke
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
The Authority for Collector Car Pricing
With 760 pages of pricing at your fingertips, the 2012 Collector Car Price Guide is the ultimate resource for car hobbyists. Whether you're looking to find a price on a blue ribbon show car, or a beater station wagon, you can find out what it's worth,...
Machines of Youth
America’s Car Obsession
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
For American teenagers, getting a driver’s license has long been a watershed moment, separating teens from their childish pasts as they accelerate toward the sweet, sweet freedom of their futures. With driver’s license in hand, teens are on the road to buying and driving(and maybe even crashing)...
by Neil Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
When Daniel Defoe, the author of A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain, visited Shropshire in the early 1720s, on his journey from Shrewsbury to Lichfield he travelled along what he called ‘The Great Ancient Road’. Both before and since Defoe’s time, this road has played a vital role...
by Susan Wachowiak, Emmanuel Burgin, Colleen M. O’Connor
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
San Diego enjoys a long and storied race car and drag racing history, and the Bean Bandits are a huge part of that heritage. Yet their story remains buried in plain sight. Told here in photographs garnered from private, personal, and historical collections, the 1950s pioneering exploits of Bean Bandits...
by Brian Medlin
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Learning how to drive is harder than it looks. There's more to it than sitting behind the wheel and pressing the gas pedal. Driving lessons are essential, of course. Teaching yourself will most assuredly end in disaster. Keep the following rules and suggests in mind when you start driving.......
by David D. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2006
Hydroplane racing burst onto the Seattle scene in 1950, and local sports fans embraced it with a passion that is hard to imagine. Throughout the early 1950s, thousands of fans flocked to Lake Washington to watch classic races between Seattle�s Slo-mo-shun boats and a fleet of East Coast challengers....