Automotive category: 1940 books

The NASCAR drivers featured in these pages are the drivers who make stock car racing one of the fastest, and fastest-growing, sports around. They come from a variety of backgrounds and experiences, from all corners of the country. Some of NASCAR’s top racers bear an impressive racing pedigree, with...

Mercedes-Benz _x0018_Pagoda _x0019_ SLs are cars that have the style and dynamic qualities that can be instantly recognised and appreciated 35 years after they went out of production. They are more practical than their predecessors, the 300SL Gullwing and roadsters, and more memorable than their successors,...

A Consumerís Guide To  CTM Mobility Scooters, Electric Mobility Scooters And What To Look For, QVC Scooter Store, Outdoor Mobility Scooters and Electric Mobility Scooters.  

This fascinating handbook answers the questions of anyone who has ever wondered about the many strange devices found along the roadside, from utility poles to satellite dishes. Devices are grouped according to their habitats-along highways and roads, atop buildings, near airports, and on utility towers....

This book covers several topics including: What is Road Rage      Real Stories of Road Rage    History of Road Rage     Road Rager Profile       Road Rage or Aggressive Driving   How Driving...

Looking for Norbert Street, or Donat Crescent, or maybe Caspian Court ? How about Turnburry Court, Satleville Crescent, or Venetian Drive ?  These are only 6 of the more than 50 new streets created in the last year ( over 250 streets in the last 5 years) in the Greater Moncton area of New Brunswick,...

Rails to Light came about as a result of my reading the book Riding the Rails. I was appalled by the teenagers experiences, and I wondered what such experiences would do to an individual. Reading about the teenagers experiences was interesting, and writing about them was exciting and invigorating....

Whether it's about the classic, original Mini or the new generation MINI from BMW, this is the story of an extraordinary motoring icon which will be celebrating its 60th Anniversary in 2019. Designed by Sir Alec Issigonis, the car that was conceived as the answer to a crisis but became one of the...

Literarische Gedanken Edition präsentiert Die Welt auf Schienen von Artur Fürst ------ "Die Welt auf Schienen" ist Eine Darstellung der Einrichtung des Betriebes auf den Eisenbahnen des Fernverkehrs nebst einer Geschichte der Eisenbahn, zusammengestellt und veröffentlicht 1918 vom deutschen...

L'automobile, menacée par son succès, est confrontée depuis la fin du XXe siècle à une série de redoutables et nouveaux défis. Il s'agit d'abord des contraintes environnementales, auxquelles le protocole de Kyoto (signé en décembre 1997 et entré en vigueur en février 2005) a sensibilisé...

For many years, Land Rover was synonymous with capable, good-value, and easy-to-maintain vehicles that served farmers and adventurers so well all over the world. But starting from the nineties, successive new owners stole the soul of the brand and made it into another luxury brand making opulent vehicles...

This SpringerBrief deals with the control and optimization problem in hybrid electric vehicles. Given that there are two (or more) energy sources (i.e., battery and fuel) in hybrid vehicles, it shows the reader how to implement an energy-management strategy that decides how much of the vehicle’s...

In Routes of Compromise Michael K. Bess studies the social, economic, and political implications of road building and state formation in Mexico through a comparative analysis of Nuevo León and Veracruz from the 1920s to the 1950s. He examines how both foreign and domestic actors, working at local,...

Space Politics and Policy: An Evolutionary Perspective provides a comprehensive survey of Space Policy. This book is organized around two themes. Space Policy is evolutionary in that it has responded to dramatic political events, such as the launching of Sputnik and the Cold War, and has undergone...