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(Hall-Scott Motor Car
Company), Francis H. Bradford, and Ric A. Dias (2007).
Hall-Scott: The Untold Story of a Great American Engine-Maker.
(Warrendale, PA: SAE International, 416 p.). Former Hall-Scott
Engineer. Hall-Scott Motor Car Company. 1910 - Elbert J. Hall,
Bert C. Scott formed business in Berkeley, CA to produce
gasoline powered rail cars; 1970 - last Hall-Scott made by
Hercules Motors; comprehensive look at Hall-Scott's
technological advances, successes, problems, failures.
(Harley-Davidson), Harry
V. Sucher (1985).
Harley-Davidson: The Milwaukee Marvel.
(Sparkford, Somerset: Haynes, 328 p. [3rd rev. ed.]).
Harley-Davidson Motor Company--History;
Industries--Wisconsin--Milwaukee--History.
Arthur Davidson,
Walter
Davidson, William Harley,
William
Davidson
(http://lh6.ggpht.com/padilla.collado/R9D4tiNjhjI/AAAAAAAAAyw/7nDuEASAUOQ/s400/harley-davidson_115.jpg)
(Harley-Davidson), Peter
C. Reid (1990).
Well Made in America: Lessons from Harley-Davidson on Being the
Best. (New York, NY: McGraw-Hill,
226 p.). Harley-Davidson Motor Company--Management; Motorcycle
industry--United States--Management; Corporate
turnarounds--United States--Management--Case studies.
(Harley-Davidson), David
K. Wright; foreword by Willie G. Davidson (1993).
The Harley-Davidson Motor Company: An Official Ninety-Year
History. (Osceola, WI: Motorbooks
International, 296 p.). Harley-Davidson Motor Company--History;
Motorcycle industry--United States--History; Motorcycle
racing--History.
(Harley-Davidson), Brock
W. Yates (1999).
Outlaw Machine: Harley-Davidson and the Search for the American
Soul. (Boston, MA: Little, Brown,
249 p.). Harley-Davidson Incorporated--History; Harley Davidson
motorcycle--History; Popular culture--United States.
(Harley-Davidson), Rich
Teerlink and Lee Ozley (2000).
More Than a Motorcycle: The Leadership Journey at
Harley-Davidson. (Boston, MA:
Harvard Business School Press, 278 p.). Harley-Davidson
Incorporated--Management; Harley-Davidson Motor
Company--Management; Motorcycle industry--United States.
(Harley-Davidson), Jean
Davidson ; foreword by Arthur Harley Davidson (2001).
Growing Up Harley-Davidson: Memoirs of a Motorcycle Dynasty.
(Stillwater, MN: Voyageur Press, 272 p.). Granddaughter of
Walter Davidson (one of the four founders and the first
president of Harley-Davidson). Davidson, Jean, 1937- --Childhood
and youth; Harley-Davidson Incorporated--History;
Motorcyclists--United States--Family relationships; Davidson
family; Harley family.
(Harley-Davidson),
Willie G. Davidson (2002).
100 Years of Harley-Davidson.
(Boston, MA: Bullfinch Press, 288 p.). Harley-Davidson
Incorporated--History; Harley-Davidson motorcycle--History.
(Harley-Davidson),
Herbert Wagner (2003).
At the Creation: Myth, Reality, and the Origin of the
Harley-Davidson Motorcycle, 1901-1909.
(Madison, WI: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 228 p.).
Harley-Davidson Motor Company--History; Motorcycle
industry--United States--History.
(Harley-Davidson), Missy Scott
(2008).
Harley-Davidson Motor Company. (Westport, CT:
Greenwood Press, 178 p.). Harley-Davidson Motor Company
--History; Motorcycle industry --United States --History. How
company created Harley "experience" (attracts hundreds of
thousands to events where they meet company officials, other
Harley riders; unmatched ability to create 'buzz marketing',
turn casual riders into unofficial sales people.
(Harley Davidson), Dantar P. Oosterwal
(2010).
The Lean Machine: How Harley-Davidson Drove Top-Line Growth and
Profitability with Revolutionary Lean Product Development.
(New York, NY: American Management Association 254 p.). Former
Vice President of Innovation at Sara Lee, Director of Product
Development at Harley-Davidson. Product management; New
products; Harley-Davidson Incorporated -- Management.
Mid-1980s
- post-bankruptcy growth period; turnaround centered on radical
improvements to product development processes - efficient and
effective "Knowledge-Based Product Development"; evolution of
Harley-Davidson product development team as it moved to
breakthrough process of cadence, flows, set-based designs.
(Haynes Automobile Company),
Ralph D. Gray (1979).
Alloys and Automobiles: The Life of Elwood Haynes.
(Indianapolis, IN: Indiana Historical Society, 243 p.).
Professor Emeritus of History (Indiana University-Purdue
University Indianapolis). Haynes, Elwood, 1857-1925; Automobile
industry and trade--United States--Biography;
Metallurgists--United States--Biography.
(Quinton Hazell
Automotive), Quinton Hazell (1992).
Quinton Hazell: The Life of an Entrepreneur.
(Phoenix Mill, Gloucestershire, UK: A. Sutton, 135 p.). Hazell,
Quinton, 1920- ; Businessmen--Great Britain--Biography;
Automobile supplies industry--Great Britain--History.
(Honda), Sol Sanders (1975).
Honda: The Man and His Machines. (Boston, MA: Little,
Brown, 208 p.). Honda, So¯ichiro¯, 1906- ; Honda motorcycle.
Soichiro Honda
(http://www.grips.ac.jp/teacher/ oono/hp/image_j2/lec11_9honda.jpg)
(Honda), Tetsuo Sakiya;
translated by Kiyoshi Ikemi; adapted by Timothy Porter (1982).
Honda Motor: The Men, the Management, the Machines. (New
York, NY: Kodansha International/USA, 242 p.). Honda,
So¯ichiro¯, 1906- ; Fujisawa, Takeo, 1910- ; Honda Giken Ko¯gyo¯
Kabushiki Kaisha.
(Honda), Robert L. Shook
(1988).
Honda: An American Success Story.
(New York, NY: Prentice Hall, 238 p.). Honda of America Mfg.;
Automobile industry and trade--United States; Automobile
industry and trade--Japan; Motorcycle industry--United States;
Motorcycle industry--Japan.
(Honda), Yves Derisbourg;
preface de Hirotoshi Honda (1993).
Monsieur Honda: Tel Qu’il s’Est Raconte a Yves Derisbourg.
(Paris, FR: R. Laffont, 341 p.). Honda, So¯ichiro¯, 1906- ;
Honda Giken Ko¯gyo¯ Kabshiki Kisha--History; Automobile industry
and trade--Japan--Biography; Automobile industry and
trade--Japan--History.
(Honda), Dave Nelson,
Rick Mayo, Patricia E. Moody (1998).
Powered by Honda: Developing Excellence in the Global Enterprise
(New York, NY: Wiley, 256 p.). American Honda Motor
Company--Management; Automobile industry and trade--Production
control--United States.
(Honda), Ed. Don Hensley (2004).
Building on Dreams: The Story of Honda in Ohio.
(Marysville, OH: Honda of America Mfg., Inc., 126 p.). Honda
Giken Ko-gyo- Kabushiki Kaisha; Honda motorcycle --History
--Ohio; Honda automobiles --History --Ohio; Ohio --Manufactures
--History.
(Honda), Masaaki Sato;
translated by Hiroko Yoda with Matt Alt (2006).
The Honda Myth: The Genius and His Wake. (New York, NY:
Vertical, 476 p. [orig. pub. in 1995 in Japanese]). Executive at
Nikkei Business Publications. Honda, So¯ichiro¯, 1906- ;
Fujisawa, Takeo, 1910- ; Honda Giken Ko¯gyo¯ Kabushiki Kaisha;
Automobile industry and trade--Japan.
Cult worship of Soichiro Honda,
fomented by Takeo Fujisawa, worked at first to firm's great
benefit, also against it in subtle ways; free-spiritedness
threatened to take backseat to bureaucracy, complacency;
becoming-a faceless firm.
(Honda), Yozo Hasegawa;
Translated by Anthony Kimm (2008).
Clean Car Wars: How Honda and Toyota are Winning the Battle of
the Eco-Friendly Autos. (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 200 p.).
Senior Staff Writer (Nikkei Inc.). Honda Giken Ko¯gyo¯ Kabshiki
Kisha--History; Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha--history; hybrid
cars; auto design -- environmental technologies.
How two biggest Japanese
automakers are battling each other, and world, for supremacy of
emerging market in green technologies; which global auto makers
are best positioned to survive, emerge atop zero-emissions,
automotive world of 21st century.
(Honda), Jonathan S. Russ
(2008).
Global Motivations: Honda, Toyota, and the Drive Toward American
Manufacturing. (Lanham, MD: University Press of
America, 170 p.). Honda Motor Vo.; Toyota; automobile
,manufacturing -- history. Histories of Honda and Toyota as
transplant automobile manufacturers in United States; historical, cultural, legal,
labor experiences of two firms as they became established on American industrial landscape.
(Hudson), Jean Maddern
Pitrone (1991).
Hudson's: Hub of America's Heartland.
(West Bloomfield, MI: Altwerger and Mandel Pub. Co.,, 201 p.).
Hudson family; J.L. Hudson Company--History; Hudson Motor Car
Company--History; Department stores--Michigan--Detroit--History;
Automobile industry and trade--United States--History.
(Hudson), J.C. Long;
with an introduction by Charles K. Hyde; foreword by William
Ruxton Chapin (2004).
Roy D. Chapin: The Man Behind the Hudson Motor Car Company.
(Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 269 p. [orig. pub.
1945]). Chapin, Roy D. (Roy Dikeman), 1880-1936; Hudson Motor
Car Company--Histor; Automobile engineers--United
States--Biography; Industrialists--United States--Biography.
(Humber), A. B. Demaus, J. C.
Tarring (1990).
The Humber Story 1868-1932. (London, UK: Sutton
Publishing, 168 p.). Humber, Thomas; Humber Ltd.
1868 - Thomas Humber founded
Humber cycle company in Sheffield , 1913 - second largest
manufacturer of cars in United Kingdom; 1931 - control acquired
by Rootes Brothers.
(Hyundai), Donald Kirk
(1994).
Korean Dynasty: Hyundai and Chung Ju Yung.
(Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 382 p.). Chong, Chu-yong, 1915- ;
Hyondae Chadongch`a Chusik Hoesa (Korea); Businesspeople--Korea
(South)--Biography.
Chung Ju Yung
- Hyundai
(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0415920507.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg)
(Hyundai), Richard M.
Steers (1999).
Made in Korea: Chung Ju Yung and the Rise of Hyundai
(New York, NY: Routledge, 284 p.). Chong, Chu-yong, 1915- ;
Hyondae Group; Conglomerate corporations--Korea (South);
Businesspeople--Korea (South)--Biography.
(Hyundai), Russell D.
Lansbury, Chung-Sok Suh, and Seung-Ho Kwon (2007).
The Global Korean Motor Industry: The Hyundai Motor Company’s
Global Strategy. (New York, NY: Routledge, 132 p.).
Professor of Work and Organisational Studies, Associate Dean
(Research) in the Faculty of Economics and Business (University
of Sydney); Associate Professor, School of Organisation and
Management (University of New South Wales); Senior Research
Fellow, School of Organisation and Management ((University of
New South Wales). Automobile industry and trade--Korea
(South)--Case studies; International business enterprises--Korea
(South)--Management--Case studies; Globalization--Economic
aspects--Korea (South)--Case studies.
Experiences of globalizing Korean
automobile industry; importance of production systems,
employment relations as part of Hyundai's growth; need for
overseas production, global supply chains, improved
co-ordination between head office, subsidiaries.
(Hyundai), Lee Myung-bak; translated by Zhu
Hong (2010).
Making Hyundai, Remaking Seoul: From CEO to South Korea’s
President: The Autobiography of Lee Myung-bak.
(Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 192 p.). Ppresident of the
Republic of Korea. . Yi, Myo(ng-bak; Hyo(ndae Chonghap Sangsa
(Korea) --History; Hyo(ndae Chonghap Sangsa (Korea) --Officials
and employees --Biography; Presidents --Korea (South)
--Biography; Mayors --Korea (South) --Seoul --Biography;
Executives --Korea (South) --Biography; Korea (South) --Politics
and government --2002-; Seoul (Korea) --Politics and government.
Unlikely journey from early life of grinding poverty to
highest echelons of country's corporate, governmental
leadership; youngest CEO of Hyundai as it emerged from obscure
construction company to one of world's top multinational
corporations; turned company into force on world economic scene;
mayor of Seoul; won 2007 presidential election for president of
Republic of Korea; six strategies for success led to Hyundai's
remarkable growth, Seoul's turnaround, South Korea's growing
stature on world stage.
(Inchcape PLC),
Stephanie Jones; foreword by Sir David Orr (1986).
Two Centuries of Overseas Trading: The Origins and Growth of the
Inchcape Group. (London, UK:
Macmillan in association with Business History Unit, University
of London, 328 p.). Inchcape PLC -- History; Great Britain --
Commerce -- History; Great Britain Foreign trade Companies.
(Interstate Battery
System of America), Norm Miller, with H.K. Hosier (1996).
Beyond the Norm. (Nashville, TN:
Thomas Nelson Publishers, 210 p.). Miller, Norm; Interstate
Battery System of America--History; Businesspeople--United
States--Biography; Chief executive officers--United
States--Biography; Success in business; Christian life.
(Jaguar Cars Ltd.),
Philip Porter & Paul Skilleter (2001).
Sir William Lyons: The Official Biography.
(Newbury Park, CA: Haynes North America, 296 p.). Lyons,
William, Sir, 1901-1985; Jaguar Cars Ltd.--History;
Businessmen--Great Britain--Biography; Automobile industry and
trade--Great Britain--Biography; Jaguar automobiles--History.
Sir William Lyons
- founder Jaguar
(http://www.automotivehalloffame.org/resources/inductee/inductee_20130307104754.jpg)
(Jaguar Cars Ltd.), Nigel
Thorley (2007).
Jaguar: Marketing the Marque: The History of Jaguar Seen Through
Its Advertising, Brochures and Catalogues. (Newbury
Park, CA: Haynes North America Inc., 192 p.). Jaguar Historian,
Founder Member of the Jaguar Enthusiasts' Club. Jaguar
automobile; Advertising--automobiles.
Company, its cars, social
history throughout period told through company's
promotional literature.
(J.A.P.), Jeff Clew
(1985).
J.A.P., The Vintage Years.
(Newbury Park, CA: Haynes, 255 p.). Prestwich, John Alfred,
1874-1952.; J.A.P. (Firm)--History; Motorcycle industry--Great
Britain--History; Industrialists--Great Britain--Biography.
(Kaiser-Frazer
Corporation), Richard M. Langworth (1975).
Kaiser-Frazer, The Last Onslaught on Detroit: An Intimate Behind
the Scenes Study of the Postwar American Car Industry.
(Kutztown, PA: Automobile Quarterly Publications, 287 p.).
Kaiser-Frazer Corporation; Automobile industry and trade--United
States--History.
(Lancia), Franco Amatori
(1996). Impresa e Mercato: Lancia 1906-1969. (Bologna,
Italy: Mulino, 299 p.). Professor of Economic History (Bocconi
University, Milan). Lancia automobile--History; Automobile
industry and trade--Italy--History.
Vicenzo Lancia
(http://www.autopasion18.com/IMAGENES-LOS-PADRES-DEL-AUTOMOVIL/VICENZO
LANCIA-(1881-XXXX)-01.jpg)
(Land-Rover Ltd.), Graham
Robson (1981).
The Rover Story. (Cambridge, UK: Stephens, 185 p.).
Land-Rover Ltd.--History; Rover automobile--History; Automobile
industry and trade--Great Britain--History.
(Lomax Motor Company),
Tom Lucas (1997).
Lomax: The First Ten Years: The Story of the Lomax Motor Company.
(Luton, UK: Flyscreen, 107 p.). Lomax Motor Company -- History.
(Lucas Industries),
Harold Nockolds (1976-1978).
Lucas: The First Hundred Years.
(Newton Abbott, UK: David & Charles, 21 vols.). Lucas, Joseph,
1834-1902; Lucas Industries--History; Businesspeople--Great
Britain--Biography. Contents: v. 1. The king of the road.--v. 2.
The successors.
(Magna International), Wayne
Lilley (2006).
Magna Cum Laude: How Frank Stronach Became Canada's Best-Paid
Man. (Toronto, ON: McClelland & Stewart, 362 p.).
Stronach, Frank; Magna International; auto parts industry.
Rags to riches - how Magna
grew, recovered from brink of disaster in 1990, to present size.
(Maxwell Motor Company),
Anthony J. Yanik (2009).
Maxwell Motor and the Making of Chrysler Corporation.
(Detroit, MI, Wayne State University Press, 189 p.). Former
Editor of Wheels. Maxwell Motor --History; Chrysler Corporation
--History; Automobiles --United States --History; Chrysler
automobile --History. One of leading automobile producers in
United States during first quarter of 20th century; became
foundation of Chrysler Corporation; first popular car with
engine in front (instead of under body), first to be designed
with three-point suspension and shaft drive, one of earliest
cars to feature thermo-syphon cooling; machines, process, men
behind Maxwell; company's evolution, 1903-1925; aftermath of
Maxwell's dissolution, fate of its famous corporate leaders.
(Mazda), Joseph J.
Fucini and Suzy Fucini (1990).
Working for the Japanese: Inside Mazda's American Auto Plant.
(New York, NY: Free Press, 258 p.). Mazda Motors of America
(Central)--Employees; Mazda Motors of America
(Central)--Personnel management.
(Merryweather), James Compton
Merryweather (1901). A Record of Two
Centuries: Being a Short History of the House of Merryweather &
Sons, of Longacre & Greenwich, 1690-1901. (Merritt:
London, UK, 85 p.). Merryweather & Sons Ltd; fire equipment --
manufacture -- history. Manufacturer of
fire engines.
(MG Rover Group Ltd.),
Andrew Lorenz, Chris Brady (2006).
End of the Road: The True Story of the Downfall of Rover.
(London, UK: Prentice Hall, 256 p.). Director of Studies for the
General and Strategic Management MBA (City University Business
School, London); Former Business Editor (Sunday Times). MG Rover
(Firm); Automobile industry and trade--Great Britain; Business
failures--Great Britain. Decline of
national institution.
John Kemp Starley
- founder Rover
(http://wiki.transport-museum.com/(S(idjbh545scqncs45a41uwu55))/GetFile.aspx?File=JKStarley.jpg)
(Mitsubishi), Yasuo
Mishima; Translated by Emiko Yamaguchi (1989).
Mitsubishi: Its Challenge and Strategy.
(Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 349 p.).
Mitsubishi Zaibatsu -- History.
(Mitsubishi), Margaret
L. Chapman, Arun P. Elhance, and John D. Wenum (1995).
Mitsubishi Motors in Illinois: Global Strategies, Local Impacts.
(Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 129 p.). Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo
Kabushiki Kaisha; Diamond-Star Motors Corp.; Automobile industry
and trade--United States--Foreign; Ownership--Case studies;
Corporations, Japanese--United States--Case studies.
(Morris Motors Ltd.),
James Leasor, James (1954).
Wheels to Fortune; A Brief Account of the Life and Times of
William Morris, Viscount Nuffield.
(London, UK: The Bodley Head, 160 p.). Nuffield, William Richard
Morris, 1st viscount, 1877- ; Morris Motors Ltd.
William Morris
(later
Lord Nuffield) - Morris Motors - founder MG
(http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/resources/images/1400419.jpg?type=articleLandscape)
Cecil Kimber -
created MG brand
(http://www.dur.ac.uk/ashley.holmes/durhammgoc/Cecil
Kimber/Cecil Kimber.jpg)
(Morris Motors Ltd.),
P.W.S. Andrews and Elizabeth Brunner (1955).
The Life of Lord Nuffield; A Study in Enterprise and Benevolence.
(Oxford, UK: B. Blackwell, 356 p.). Nuffield, William Richard
Morris, Viscount, 1877-1963; Morris Motors, Ltd.
(Morris Motors Ltd.), R.
J. Overy (1976).
William Morris, Viscount Nuffield.
(London, UK: Europa Publications, 151 p.). Nuffield, William
Richard Morris, Viscount, 1877-1963; Morris Motors
Ltd.--History; Businesspeople--Great Britain--Biography.
(Morris Motors Ltd.),
Edited by F. John Minns (1994).
Wealth Well-Given: The Enterprise and Benevolence of Lord
Nuffield. (Dover, NH: Alan Sutton,
318 p.). Morris Motors Ltd.; Businesspeople--Great
Britain--Biography; Philanthropists--Great Britain--Biography.
(New Jersey Turnpike), Michael
Lapolla and Thomas A. Suszka (2005).
The New Jersey Turnpike. (Charleston, SC: Arcadia
Publishing, 128 p.). Executive Director of the New Jersey
Turnpike Authority; Turnpike’s Photographer. Toll roads--New
Jersey--History--Pictorial works; New Jersey Turnpike
(N.J.)--History--Pictorial works.
History of highway from 1949
through present day; economic engine of New Jersey, foundation
of industrial prosperity, personal mobility; more than 240
million vehicles travel along route.
(Nissan), Edited by
Steve Barnett (1992).
The Nissan Report: An Inside Look at How a World Class Japanese
Company Makes Products that Make a Difference.
(New York, NY: Doubleday, 189 p.). Nissan Jid¯osha Kabushiki
Kaisha; Nissan automobile -- Marketing.
(Nissan), Carlos Ghosn
and Philippe Riès; translated from the French by John Cullen
(2005).
Shift: Inside Nissan's Historic Revival.
(New York, NY: Currency/Doubleday, 232 p. [orig. pub. 2003 in
France]). CEO (Nissan). Ghosn, Carlos, 1954- ; Nissan Jid¯osha
Kabushiki Kaisha--History; Chief executive
officers--Japan--Biography; Automobile industry and
trade--Japan--Biography.
(Nissan Motor
Corporation in U.S.A.), John B. Rae (1982).
Nissan/Datsun, A History of Nissan Motor Corporation in U.S.A.,
1960-1980. (New York, NY:
McGraw-Hill, 331 p.). Nissan Motor Corporation in U.S.A.; Datsun
automobile; Corporations, Japanese--United States.
(Nissan Motor Corporation in
U.S.A.), John Egerton (1983).
Nissan in Tennessee. (Smyrna, TN: Nissan Motor
Manufacturing Corp. U.S.A., 127 p.). Nissan Motor Corporation in
U.S.A.; Truck industry--Tennessee--Smyrna.
(Nissan Motor
Corporation in U.S.A.), David Magee (2003).
Turnaround: How Carlos Ghosn Rescued Nissan.
(New York, NY: HarperBusiness, p.). Ghosn, Carlos, 1954- ;
Nissan Motor Corporation in U.S.A.--Management; Automobile
industry and trade--United States--Management; Automobile
industry and trade--Japan--Management; Corporate
turnarounds--United States.
(Norton Villiers Ltd.),
Bob Holliday (1976).
Norton Story. (Cambridge, UK: P.
Stephens, 128 p.). Norton Villiers, Ltd.; Norton motorcycle;
Motorcycle racing.
(Oldsmobile), Glen Alan
Niemeyer (1963).
The Automotive Career of Ransom E. Olds.
(East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University, 233 p.). Olds,
Ransom Eli, 1864-1950; Automobile industry and trade--United
States.
Ransom E. Olds
(http://www.autopasion18.com/IMAGENES-LOS-PADRES-DEL-AUTOMOVIL/RANSOM
ELI OLDS-(1864-1950)-01.jpg)
(Oldsmobile), George S.
May (1977).
R. E. Olds, Auto Industry Pioneer.
(Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 458 p.). Michigan Historian. Olds,
Ransom Eli, 1864-1950; Automobile industry and trade--United
States--History; Businesspeople--United States--Biography.
(Oldsmobile), Michael
Rodriguez (2004).
R.E. Olds and Industrial Lansing. (Charleston, SC:
Arcadia, 128 p.). Humanities Librarian at Michigan State
University. Olds, Ransom Eli, 1864-1950; Manufacturing
industries--Michigan--Lansing--History--Pictorial works; Lansing
(Mich.)--History--Pictorial works.
Industrial history of Capital
City within context of one of 20th century's greatest
entrepreneurs, R. E. Olds.
(Opel AG), Henry Ashby
Turner, Jr. (2005).
General Motors and the Nazis: The Struggle for Control of Opel,
Europe's Biggest Carmaker. (New
Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 224 p.). Stillé Professor of
History Emeritus (Yale University). Opel AG--History; Automobile
industry and trade--Germany--History.
Adam Opel
- Opel AG
(http://history.gmheritagecenter.com/wiki/uploads/thumb/c/cb/16102.jpg/180px-16102.jpg)
(Packard), Michael
Aiken, Louis A. Ferman and Harold L. Sheppard (1968).
Economic Failure, Alienation and Extremism.
(Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 213 p.). Packard
Motor Car Company; Employees -- Dismissal of -- Case studies;
Unemployed -- Case studies; Alienation (Social psychology).
James Ward
Packard, William Doud Packard
(http://bbcef.torres.free.fr/Les_Grands_Noms/Packard_freres.jpg)
(Packard), Nathaniel T.
Dawes (1975).
The Packard: 1942-1962. (South
Brunswick, NJ: A. S. Barnes, 219 p.). Packard Motor Car Company;
Studebaker-Packard Corporation; Packard automobile.
(Packard), Michael G.H.
Scott (1985).
Packard: The Complete Story. (Blue
Ridge Summit, PA: Tab Books, 201 p.). Packard Motor Car
Company--History; Packard automobile--History; Automobile
industry and trade--United States--History.
(Packard), James A. Ward
(1995).
The Fall of the Packard Motor Car Company.
(Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 309 p.). Packard Motor
Car Company--History; Automobile industry and trade--United
States--History.
(Packard), Editor
Beverly Rae Kimes (2002).
Packard: A History of the Motor Car and the Company.
(New Albany, IN: Automobile Quarterly, 828 p.). Packard Motor
Car Company -- History; Packard automobile -- History;
Automobile industry and trade -- United States -- History.
(Packard), Evan P. Ide;
foreword by Joseph S. Freeman (2003).
Packard Motor Car Company. (Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 128
p.). Curator of the Larz Anderson Auto Museum, Member of the
Society of Automotive Historians. Packard Motor Car
Company--History--Pictorial works; Packard
automobile--History--Pictorial works; Automobile industry and
trade--United States--History--Pictorial works.
1899 to 1957;
golden era of Packard cars came to close in late 1930s; early
years at Warren, OH, Detroit factories.
(Pennsylvania Turnpike),
Mitchell E. Dakelman and Neal A. Schorr (2004).
The Pennsylvania Turnpike. (Charleston, SC: Arcadia,
128 p.). Director of Media Services for the National Railroad
Historical Society. Toll roads--Pennsylvania; Express
highways--Pennsylvania; Roads--Pennsylvania--History;
Pennsylvania Turnpike (Pa.)--History.
Inspired by route of never
completed South Pennsylvania Railroad; nation's first
long-distance superhighway using abandoned railroad's partially
finished tunnels as foundation; tremendous success.
(Pep Boys), Marian Calabro (2005).
The Pep Boys Company: Founders of the Automotive Aftermarket.
(New York, NY: Lark Books, p.). Pep Boys (Firm) --History;
Automobile supplies industry --United States --History.
(Peugeot), Alain Jemain
(1987). Les Peugeot: Vertiges et Secrets d'une Dynastie.
(Paris, FR: J.C. Lattès, 284 p.). Peugeot (S.A.)--History;
Automobile industry and trade--France--History.
Armand Peugeot
(http://www.autonews.com/files/ euroauto/2003inductees/armandpeugeot250.jpg)
(Peugeot), Olivier de Serres
(1990). Peugeot: La Griffe du Lion. (Paris, FR: Libr.
Séguier, 330 p.). Peugeot (S.A.)--History; Peugeot
automobile--History.
(Pick Motor Company),
Michael Key (1994).
Pick of Stamford: A History of Pick Motor Company.
(Stamford, UK: P.Watkins, 128 p.). Pick Motor Company --
History; Pick Motor Company -- History -- Catalogs; Automobile
industry and trade -- England -- Stamford -- History; Cars
Production History Lincolnshire (England).
(Porsche), Ferry Porsche
with John Bentley; foreword by Baron Huschke von Hanstein
(1976).
We at Porsche: The Autobiography of Dr. Ing. h.c. Ferry Porsche.
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(Renault), Anthony
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(Renault), Jacques Borgé,
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(Paris, FR: Lafourcade: Diffusion, M.A.D., 463 p.). Renault,
Louis, 1877-1944; Régie nationale des usines Renault--History;
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Louis, 1877-1944; Automobile industry and
trade--France--Biography.
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(1998).
Louis Renault. (Paris, FR: Plon, 458 p.). Renault,
Louis, 1877-1944; Renault family; Front populaire;
Industrialists--France--Biography; Automobile industry and
trade--France--History; World War,
1939-1945--Collaborationists--France--Biography;
France--History--German occupation,
1940-1945--Collaborationists.
(Renault), Laurent
Dingli (2000).
Louis Renault. (Paris, FR:
Flammarion, 678 p.). Renault, Louis, 1877-1944; Renault family;
Front populaire; Industrialists--France--Biography; Automobile
industry and trade--France--History; World War,
1939-1945--Collaborationists--France--Biography;
France--History--German occupation,
1940-1945--Collaborationists.
(Renault), Didier Toussaint
(2004). Renault, ou, L'Inconscient d'Une Entreprise.
(Paris, FR: Harmattan, 301 p.). Automobile industry and trade --
France -- History; Regie nationale des usines Renault --
History.
(Renault), Caroline Schulenburg (2008).
Renault Und Daimler-Benz in Der Zwischenkriegszeit (1919-1938):
Eine Vergleichende Unternehmensgeschichte Zweier Europaischer
Automobilhersteller. (Stuttgart, Germany: Steiner, 294
p.). Regie Nationale des Usines Renault --History; Daimler-Benz
Aktiengesellschaft --History; Automobile industry and trade
--France --History; Automobile industry and trade --Germany
--History.
(Reo Motor Car Company), Lisa
M. Fine (2004).
The Story of Reo Joe: Work, Kin, and Community in Autotown,
U.S.A. (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 239
p.). Reo Motor Car Company--Employees--History; Automobile
industry workers--Michigan--Lansing; Lansing (Mich.)--Social
life and customs.
(Rolls Royce), Lord
Montagu of Beaulieu (1966).
Rolls of Rolls-Royce; A Biography of the Hon. C. S. Rolls.
(London, UK: Cassell, 250 p.). Rolls, Charles Stewart,
1877-1910.
Hon.
Charles Stewart Rolls,
Sir
Frederick Henry Royce
(http://www.rolls-royce.com/Images/rollsandroyce_tcm92-36460.jpg)
(Rolls Royce), Wilton J.
Oldham (1967).
The Hyphen in Rolls-Royce: A Biography of Claude Johnson.
(London, UK: Foulis, 194 p.). Johnson, Claude Goodman,
1864-1926; Rolls-Royce, ltd.
(Rolls Royce), John
Rowland (1970).
The Rolls-Royce Men; The Story of C. S. Rolls and Henry Royce.
(New York, NY: Roy Publishers, 130 p.). Rolls, Charles Stewart,
1877-1910; Royce, Henry, Sir, 1863-1933.
(Rolls Royce), Roy
Nockolds (1972).
The Magic of a Name.
(Henley-on-Thames, UK: G. T. Foulis, 283 p. [3rd ed.]).
Rolls-Royce, ltd.; Rolls-Royce automobile.
(Rolls Royce), Ian Lloyd
(1978).
Rolls-Royce, The Growth of a Firm.
(London, UK: Macmillan, 164 p.). Rolls-Royce Ltd. -- History;
Automobile industry and trade -- Great Britain -- History.
(Rolls Royce), Ian Lloyd
(1978).
Rolls-Royce, The Merlin at War.
(London, UK: Macmillan, 188 p.). Rolls-Royce Ltd. -- History;
Airplanes -- Motors -- History.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial
operations, British.
(Rolls Royce), Ian Lloyd
(1978).
Rolls Royce, The Years of Endeavour.
(London, UK: Macmillan, 265 p.). Rolls-Royce Ltd. -- History;
Automobiles -- Motors -- History; Automobile industry and trade
-- Great Britain -- History.
(Rolls Royce), Ronald W.
Harker (1979).
The Engines Were Rolls-Royce: An Informal History of That Famous
Company. (New York, NY: Macmillan,
202 p.). Rolls-Royce Motors Ltd.--History; Rolls-Royce engines.
(Rolls Royce), Michael
Donne (1981).
Leader of the Skies: Rolls-Royce, the First Seventy-Five Years.
(London, UK: F. Muller, 157 p.). Rolls-Royce Ltd.
(Rolls Royce), Alec
Harvey-Bailey (1983).
Rolls-Royce: The Formative Years, 1906-1939.
(Derby, England: Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust, 95 p.). Rolls-Royce
Ltd.--History; Rolls-Royce automobile--History.
(Rolls Royce), Mike
Evans (1984).
In the Beginning: The Manchester Origins of Rolls-Royce.
(Derby, UK: Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust, 169 p.). Rolls-Royce
Ltd.--History; Automobile industry and trade--Great
Britain--History.
(Rolls Royce), Alec
Harvey-Bailey and Michael Evans (1984).
Rolls-Royce: The Pursuit of Excellence.
(Paulerspury, Northamptonshire, UK: Sir Henry Royce Memorial
Foundation, 124 p.). Rolls-Royce Ltd.--History; Rolls-Royce
automobile--History; Rolls-Royce automobile--Motors--History;
Airplanes--Motors--History.
(Rolls Royce), Alec
Harvey-Bailey (1985).
Rolls-Royce: Hives, the Quiet Tiger.
(Paulerspury, Northamptonshire, UK: Sir Henry Royce Memorial
Foundation, 101 p.). Hives, Ernest Walter, 1886-1965.;
Rolls-Royce Ltd.--History; Businesspeople--Great
Britain--Biography; Automobile industry and trade--Great
Britain--History. Hives - GM, then Chairman.
(Rolls Royce), Donald
Bastow (1989).
Henry Royce, Mechanic. (Derby, UK:
Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust, 214 p.). Royce, Henry, Sir,
1863-1933; Rolls-Royce Ltd.; Automobile engineers--Great
Britain--Biography.
(Rolls Royce), Alec
Harvey-Bailey (1989).
Rolls-Royce: The Sons of Martha.
(Paulerspury, Northamptonshire, UK: Sir Henry Royce Memorial
Foundation, 164 p.). Harvey-Bailey, Alec; Rolls-Royce
Ltd.--History; Automobile engineers--Great Britain--Biography.
(Rootes Group), Robert
J. Allan (1991).
Geoffrey Rootes' Dream for Linwood: Pictorial Look at a Landmark
in British Car Manufacture.
(Minster Lovell, Scotland: Bookmarque, 106 p.). Rootes Group --
History; Imp automobile -- History; Automobile industry and
trade -- Scotland -- Linwood -- History; Cars Production History
Scotland.
(Rootes Group), John
Bullock (1993).
The Rootes Brothers: Story of a Motoring Empire.
(Sparkford, UK: P. Stephens, 248 p.). Rootes Group; Motor
vehicles Trades Great Britain.
(Russell Motor Car
Company), Jaroslav Petryshyn (2000).
"Made Up to a Standard": Thomas Alexander Russell and the
Russell Motor Car Company.
(Renfrew, ON: General Store Publishing House, 157 p.). Russell,
Thomas Alexander; Russell Motor Car Company.
(Saab), Rolf Erichs (1987).
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Co., 167 p.). Saab (Svenska Aeroplan AB); Saab-Scania
(Firm)--History; Saab automobile--History.
(Saab), Kaj Sandell, Bo
Streiffert (1990).
Scania 100 ar, 1891-1991: Ett Sekel industri- och
Fordonshistoria. (Sodertalje, Sweden: Saab-Scania,
Scaniadivisionen, 264 p.). Saab-Scania (Firm)--History;
Automobile industry and trade--Sweden--History.
(Saab), Jan Hokerberg (1992).
Spelet om Saab: en Biltillverkares Uppgang, Fall och Vag
tillbaka. (Stockholm, Sweden: Bonnier Alba, 353 p.).
Saab-Scania (Firm)--History; Automobile industry and
trade--Sweden--History.
(Saab), Eric Dymock (1997).
Saab: Half a Century of Achievement, 1947-1997. (Newbury
Park, CA: Haynes North America, 192 p.). Saab-Scania
(Firm)--History; Saab automobile--History.
(Scania-Vabis AB --History), Une
Sahlgren (1989). Fran Mekanisk Verkstad
till Internationell Industrikoncern: Scania Vabis 1939-1960.
(Stockholm, Sweden: Distributor, Almqvist & Wiksell
International). Scania-Vabis AB --History; Motor vehicle
industry --Sweden --History.
(Southdown Motor
Services), The Company (1965).
The Southdown Story; A History of Southdown Motor Services
Limited, 1915-1965. (Brighton, UK:
The Company, 107 p.). Buses; Bus lines--Great Britain.
(Stanley Steamer), George
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The Story of a Stanley Steamer. (New York, NY: Norton,
255 p.). Automobiles, Steam. A facsimile reprint of the 1916
catalogue of the Stanley Motor Carriage Company.
(Studebaker), Albert
Russel Erskine (1918).
History of the Studebaker Corporation
(Poole Bros., 97 p.). Studebaker
Corporation.
Studebaker Brothers
- Clem, Henry, John Mohler, Peter and Jacob
(http://www.studebakerhistory.com/dnn/Portals/0/Studebakerbrothers.jpg)
(Studebaker), Stephen
Longstreet (1970).
A Century on Wheels; The Story of Studebaker, A History,
1852-1952. (Westport, CT:
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(Studebaker), William A.
Cannon, Fred K. Fox (1981).
Studebaker: The Complete Story.
(Blue Ridge Summit, PA: TAB Books, 368 p.). Studebaker
Corporation; Studebaker automobile.
(Studebaker), Donald T.
Critchlow (1996).
Studebaker: The Life and Death of an American Corporation.
(Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 273 p.). Studebaker
Corporation--History; Automobile industry and trade--United
States--History.
(Studebaker), Thomas E.
Bonsall (2000).
More Than They Promised: The Studebaker Story.
(Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 488 p.).
Studebaker-Packard Corporation --History; Studebaker automobile
--History. Studebaker
family from arrival in America in 1736, to beginnings of wagon
business in nineteenth century, to family’s entry into
automobile industry in 1902, to last Studebaker ff assembly line
in 1966; soaring prosperity of company in 1920s, bankruptcy and
miraculous recovery in 1930s, stupendous success of early
post-World War II period, eventual decline of company’s fortunes
in mid-1950s.
(Toyota), Toyota Motor Co.
(1988). Toyota : A History of the First 50-Years. (Toyota
City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan: Toyota Motor Corporation, 522
p.). Toyota Jid¯osha K¯ogy¯o Kabushiki Kaisha--History.
Kiichiro Toyoda
(http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0eXa1hVbXa3pG/340x.jpg)
(Toyota), Yuzo Yasuda; translated by Fredrich
Czupryna (1991).
40 Years, 20 Million Ideas: The Toyota Suggestion System.
(Cambridge, MA: Productivity Press, 195 p.). Automobile industry
and trade -- Japan -- Management -- Case studies; Suggestion
systems -- Japan -- Case studies.
(Toyota), Yukiyasu Togo
and William Wartman (1993).
Against All Odds: The Story of the Toyota Motor Corporation and
the Family that Created It. (New
York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 260 p.). Toyota Jid¯osha K¯ogy¯o
Kabushiki Kaisha--History; Automobile industry and
trade--Japan--History.
(Toyota), Jeffrey K.
Liker (2004).
The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's
Greatest Manufacturer. (New York,
NY: McGraw-Hill, 330 p.). Toyota Jid¯osha K¯ogy¯o Kabushiki
Kaisha.; Production management Case studies; Industrial
productivity; Corporate culture History; Industrial management.
(Toyota), Shankar Basu (1999).
Corporate Purpose: Why It Matters More than Strategy.
(New York, NY: Garland Pub., 344 p.). Chairman and CEO for
Toyota Material Handling, U.S.A., Inc. Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki
Kaisha --Management; Automobile industry and trade --Japan
--Management --Case studies; International business enterprises
--Japan --Management --Case studies; Corporate purposes --Japan
--Case studies. Purpose is clearly understood, internalized by
Toyota's senior management - to be well-balanced global
corporation that is contributing member of local communities by
taking care of its employees, suppliers, local communities, by
improving quality of life of people in these communities by
making strategic decisions in pursuit of harmonious growth,
enhancement of profitability.
(Toyota), Chester C.
Dawson (2004).
Lexus: The Relentless Pursuit: How Toyota
Motor Went from "0-60" in the Global Luxury Car Market.
(Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 280 p.). Tokyo Correspondent (Business
Week). Toyota Jid¯osha K¯ogy¯o Kabushiki Kaisha; Lexus
Automobile; Luxury brands.
(Toyota), Satoshi Hino; foreword
by Jeffrey K. Liker; translated by Andrew Dillon (2005).
Inside the Mind of Toyota: Management Principles for Enduring
Growth. (New York, NY: Productivity Press, 327 p.).
Professor in the Department of Management Studies (Hiroshima
University). Toyota Jido¯sha Kabushiki Kaisha--Management;
Automobile industry and trade--Japan--Management--Case studies.
Fundamental thinking and
management structures beneath Toyota Production System.
(Toyota), Darius Mehri;
foreword by Robert Perrucci (2005).
Notes from Toyota-land: An American Engineer in Japan.
(Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, 231 p.). Computer Simulation Engineer
(Toyota); Professor of Sociology (Purdue University). Mehri,
Darius--Travel--Japan; Toyota Jid¯osha Kabushiki
Kaisha--Management; Automobile industry and
trade--Japan--Management; Work environment--Japan; Industrial
relations--Japan; Corporate culture--Japan.
Memoir of cross-cultural
misunderstanding, primer on Japanese business and
industrial practices.
(Toyota), James M. Morgan and
Jeffrey K. Liker (2006).
The Toyota Product Development System: Integrating People,
Process, and Technology. (New York, NY: Productivity
Press, 377 p.). Engineering Director at Ford Motor Company;
Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering (University
of Michigan). Toyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha;
Automobiles--Design and construction; Project management;
Concurrent engineering.
Integrating people, process, technology; continuous improvement;
specific techniques, proven practices for dealing with product
development challenges (synchronizing multiple disciplines,
multiple function workload leveling, compound process variation,
effective technology integration, knowledge management).
(Toyota), Matthew E. May;
foreword by Kevin Roberts (2006).
The Elegant Solution: Toyota’s Formula for Mastering Innovation.
(New York, NY: Free Press, 256 p.). Senior Advisor, University
of Toyota; Founder Aevitas Learning. Toyota Jido¯sha Kabushi
Kaisha; Automobile industry and trade--Management--Employee
participation--Japan; Automobile industry and
trade--Technological innovations--Japan; Creative thinking.
Team-based innovation -
formula behind Toyota's quest to innovate, do more with less.
sustain the innovation effort; 3 core principles: 1)
Ingenuity in craft; 2) Pursuit of perfection; 3) Fit with
society.
(Toyota), Dan Coffey (2007).
The Myth of Japanese Efficiency: The World Car Industry in a
Globalizing Age. (Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 202
p.). Lecturer in Microeconomics (University of Leeds). Toyota
Jido¯sha Kabushiki Kaisha; Automobile industry and
trade--Japan--Management; Automobile industry and
trade--Production control--Japan.
Form and meaning of `production
fantasy' - 'lean and flexible' production model popularly
associated with Toyota MC is a myth.
(Toyota),
Peter M. DeLorenzo (2007).
The United States of Toyota: How Detroit Squandered Its Legacy
and Enabled Toyota to Become America's Car Company.
(Portland, OR: Inkwater Press, 308 p.). Author, Autoextremist
blog. Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha --Management; Detroit
(Mich.)--History; automobile industry and trade.
Decline of American automobile
industry, rise of an Asian manufacturer to take its place;
larger-than-life personalities, cars that led American auto
industry through glory days, down path toward extinction; rise
of Toyota (sales, cultural success); primer on Detroit; state of
auto business - how it used to be, what it has become, where it
is headed.
(Toyota), Jeffrey K. Liker,
David P. Meier (2007).
Toyota Talent: Developing Your People the Toyota Way.
(New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 326 p.).
Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering (University
of Michigan); President of Lean Associates, Inc., Group Leader
for Toyota Motor Manufacturing for ten years. Toyota Jidosha
Kabushiki Kaisha--Employees; Employees--Training of; Mentoring
in business; Gifted persons; Industrial management.
Create learning, teaching culture
in all areas (shop floor, engineering, staff members in service
organizations; get most out of people who live, breathe
company's philosophy, work together toward common goal.
(Toyota), Jeffrey Liker,
Michael Hoseus (2007).
Toyota Culture: The Heart and Soul of the Toyota Way.
(New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 288 p.). Professor of Industrial and
Operations Engineering (University of Michigan); Former Group
Leader, Assembly Plant Manager, Manager of Human Resources for
Toyota's Georgetown, KY plant. Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki
Kaisha--Management; Corporate culture History.
Create, maintain people-centric
culture that sustains consistent growth, innovation,
profitability, excellence; culture of continuous improvement.
(Toyota), David Magee (2007).
How Toyota Became #1: Leadership Lessons from the World’s
Greatest Car Company. (New York, NY: Portfolio, 256 p.).
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha--Management; Automobile industry
and trade--Japan--Management--Case studies; Automobile industry
and trade--United States--Management--Case studies;
Leadership--Case studies; Customer services--Case studies.
Toyota sold fewer than 300
vehicles in its first year in U. S. (1957); has replaced Ford as
America’s second-largest carmaker (sells one in six vehicles);
nearing capacity to produce more than two million vehicles in
North America; will soon overtake General Motors as industry’s
largest producer.
(Toyota), K. Dennis Chambers (2008).
Toyota. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 132 p.). Founder
of Chambers Communications. Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
--History; Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha.
Company that changed, is changing, the
world; how did Toyota rise from ashes of World War II to become,
fifty years later, one of dominant automakers in world.
(Toyota), Emi Osono, Norihiko
Shimizu, Hirotaka Takeuchi; with John Kyle Dorton (2008).
Extreme Toyota: Radical Contradictions that Drive Success at the
World’s Best Manufacturer. (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 306 p.).
Professors Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy
(Hitotsubashi University). Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
--Management; Automobile industry and trade --Japan
--Management; Total quality management; Organizational
effectiveness. Why does
Toyota continue to outperform competitors? What is source
of its capability for self-renewal?; unique global approach to
organizational behavior in era of global knowledge worker;
learned to manage human creativity (always growing, always
incomplete, often contradictory); approach to "hard",
"soft" sides allows it to outperform competitors.
(Toyota South Africa), Albert
Wessels (1987). Albert Wessels, Farmboy and Industrialist.
(Johannesburg, SA: Perskor, 214 p.). Wessels, Albert, 1908- ;
Industrialists--South Africa--Biography.
(Albert Trostel & Sons),
Jeffrey L. Rodengen & Richard F. Hubbard (2003).
The Legend of Albert Trostel & Sons.
(Fort Laufderdale, FL: Write Studd Enterprises, 144 p.). Albert
Trostel & Sons; leather--automotive.
(Tucker), Philip S. Egan
(2003).
Design and Destiny: The Making of the Tucker Automobile.
(Orange, CA: On the Mark, 143 p.). Member of the Tucker '48
Design Team (created much of interior). Tucker automobile
--History. History of Tucker '48 sedan (introduced in June 1947
by Preston Thomas Tucker): tear-drop-shaped body, 3 headlights
(middle pivoted as wheel turned), capable of 120 mph; only 51
built; sold for $2,450.
(United Counties Omnibus
Company Limited), Roger M. Warwick (1977-1978). An
Illustrated History of the United Counties Omnibus Company
Limited. (Northampton, UK: The Author, 2 Vols.). United
Counties Omnibus Company Limited--History; Bus
lines--England--History.
(Vauxhall Motors), Len
Holden (2003).
Vauxhall Motors and the Luton Economy, 1900-2002.
(Bedford, UK: Bedfordshire Historical Record Society, 249 p.).
Vauxhall Motors Limited--History; Automobile industry and
trade--England--Luton--History; Luton (England)--Economic
conditions.
(Vespa), Daniela Tartaglia
(1981). La Piaggio di Pontedera, 1944-1978. (Firenze,
Italy: La Nuova Italia, 190 p.). Piaggio di Pontedera
(Firm)--History; Internal combustion engine
industry--Italy--Pontedera--Employees--History; Industrial
relations--Italy--Pontedera--History.
Rinaldo Piaggio
- Founder of Piaggio, manufacturer of Vespa
(http://www.vespaservizio.it/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Rinaldo-Piaggio.jpg)
Enrico Piaggio
- Vespa (http://italianalmanac.org/leggende/vespa02.jpg)
(Vespa), Luigi Rivola
(1993).
Chi Vespa Mangia le Mele.
(Vimodrone, Milano: G. Nada, 157 p.). Vespa motor
scooter--History.
(Vespa),
Tommaso Fanfani (1994). Una Leggenda verso Il Futuro: I
Centodieci Anni di Storia Della Piaggio. (Pisa, IT:
Industrie grafiche Pacini, 151 p.). Piaggio (Firm)--History;
Vespa motorscooter. Manufacturer of Vespa motor scooters.
(Vespa), a cura di Omar
Calabrese ; testi di Umberto Eco ... [et al.] (1996).
Il Mito di Vespa. (Pontedera,
Pisa: Piaggio, 168 p.). Vespa motor scooter--History; Vespa
motor scooter--Social aspects. Published in English as: "Cult of
Vespa" (Gingko Press, Corte Madera, CA).
(Vespa), Giorgio Sarti (2006).
Vespa: 60 Years. (Newbury Park, CA: Haynes North America
Inc., 432 p.). Vespa motor scooter--History.Vespa motor
scooter--Social aspects. Tribute to scooter through history,
meant something new to each generation, made its mode of
personal transport synonymous with freedom.
(Vincent H.R.D. Company), Roy
Harper (1975). The Vincent HRD Story (Vincent Publishing
Company, 220 p.). Vincent H.R.D. Company; Vincent H.R.D.
motorcycle.
(Volkswagen), Robert W.
Nitske (1958).
The Amazing Porsche and Volkswagen Story.
(New York, NY: Comet Press Books, 324 p.). Porsche, Ferdinand,
1875-1951; Volkswagen automobile.
(Volkswagen), Walter
Henry Nelson (1998).
Small Wonder: The Amazing Story of the Volkswagen Beetle.
(Cambridge, MA: Robert Bentley, Publishers, 378 p. [orig. pub.
1970]). Volkswagen automobiles--History.
(Volkswagen), Chris
Barber (2003).
Birth of the Beetle: The Development of the Volkswagen by
Ferdinand Porsche. (Somerset, UK:
Haynes, 320 p.). Volkswagen Beetle automobile--History.
(Volswagen), Bernhard Rieger
(2013). The People's Car: A Global History
of the Volkswagen Beetle. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press, 416 p.). Teaches Modern and Contemporary
History (University College London).
Improbable story as failed prestige
project of Third Reich which became world-renowned brand;
illuminates multiple origins, creative adaptations, persisting
inequalities that characterized 20th-century globalization; 1938
– Adolf Hitler presented prototype, at Berlin Auto Show, for
small, oddly shaped, inexpensive family car that all good Aryans
could enjoy; how car commissioned by Hitler, designed by
Ferdinand Porsche became exceptional global commodity on par
with Coca-Cola (culture and technology, politics and economics,
industrial design and advertising genius); quality, low cost,
uncanny ability to capture imaginations of people across
nations, cultures.
(Volkswagen of America -
first beetle sold in US on Jan. 17, 1949; company formed in
1955), David Kiley (2002).
Getting the Bugs Out: The Rise, Fall, and Comeback of Volkswagen
in America. (New York, NY: Wiley,
302 p.). Volkswagen of America, inc.; Automobile industry and
trade--United States; Corporations, German--United States;
Corporate turnarounds--United States.
(Volvo), Christian Breggren
(1992).
Alternatives to Lean Production: Work Organization in the
Swedish Auto Industry. (Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, 286 p.).
Volvo, Aktiebolaget--Management; Automobile industry and
trade--Sweden--Management--Case studies; Automobile industry
workers--Sweden--Attitudes; Automobile industry and
trade--Management--Employee participation--Sweden--Case studies.
Assar Gabrielsson
- founder Volvo
(http://www.volvogroup.com/SiteCollectionImages/Volvo%20AB/history/278x388%20and%20278x115/assar_gabrielsson_278x388.jpg)
Gustaf Larson
- founder Volvo
(http://www.volvogroup.com/SiteCollectionImages/Volvo%20AB/history/278x388%20and%20278x115/gustaf_larson_278x388.jpg)
(Volvo), Edited by Ake
Sandberg. (1995).
Enriching Production: Perspectives on Volvo’s Uddevalla Plant as
an Alternative to Lean Production. (Brookfield, VT:
Avebury, 459 p.). Volvo, Aktiebolaget--Management--Case studies;
Automobile industry and
trade--Sweden--Uddevalla--Management--Case studies; Automobile
factories--Sweden--Uddevalla--Management--Case studies.
(Volvo), Christer Olsson &
Henrik Moberger (1996). Volvo, Go¨teborg, Sverige. (St.
Gallen, Schweiz: Norden Pub. House, 239 p.). Volvo,
Aktiebolaget--History; Automobile industry and
trade--Sweden--History.
(Walbro), Forrest
Walpole; with a foreward by Bert Althaver (2000).
The Imaging of an Organization: Walter Walpole and Walbro
Corporation. (Tucson, AZ: F.
Walpole, 191 p.). Walpole, Walter, 1905-1987; Walbro
Corporation--History; Industrialists--United States--Biography;
Automobile supplies industry--United States.
(Wankel Engine),
Nicholas Faith (1975).
Wankel: The Curious Story Behind the Revolutionary Rotary Engine.
(New York, NY: Stein and Day, 249 p.). Wankel engine.
(Winton Motor Carriage
Company), Thomas F. Saal, Bernard J. Golias (1997).
Famous But Forgotten: The Story of Alexander Winton, Automotive
Pioneer and Industrialist. (Twinsburg, OH: Golias
Publishing, Inc., 143 p.). Former Editor of the Newsletter for
the Automotive Historical Society. Winton, Alexander; Winton
Motor Carriage Company.
Alexander Winton
- Winton Motor Carriage Company
(http://www.automotivehalloffame.org/resources/inductee/inductee_20130307121443.jpg)
(Yugo), Jason Vuic (2010). The
Yugo: The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History.
(New York, NY, Hill and Wang, 272 p.). Assistant Professor of
Modern European History (Bridgewater College in Bridgewater,
VA). Yugo; Automobile industry and trade --United States
--History. 1985
- Malcolm Bricklin,, co-founder of Subaru of America, needed new
import product for cheap subcompact market, introduced Yugo to
American auto market; State Department eager to aid Yugoslavia's
nonaligned communist government; Zastava Automobiles (founded
1853 in Kragujevac, Yugoslavia as cannon foundry, started making
cars in 1949; Serbia's oldest manufacturer) overhauled its
factory in 6 months to produce American-ready Yugo; starting
price of $3,990; 1989 - Zastava took over American distribution;
1992 - discontinued in U.S.
Abraham
Aamidor (2009).
Shooting Star: The Rise & Fall of the British Motorcycle
Industry.
(Toronto, ON, ECW Press, 153 p.). University Lecturer, life-long
motorcycle enthusiast, award-winning journalist. Motorcycle
industry -- Great Britain -- History. Post World War II -
motorcycles were third largest source of foreign exchange for
United Kingdom (behind automobiles, Scotch whiskey), largest
motorcycle industry in world; 1975 - British motorcycle industry
essentially dead; critical look at business and trade practices,
businessmen who built companies, ran them into ground,
engineers and designers who were brilliant, badly flawed.
Abe Aamidor, Ted
Evanoff (2010).
At the Crossroads:
Middle America and the Battle To Save the Car Industry.
(Toronto, ON, ECW, 400 p.). Former Reporter (St. Louis
Globe-Democrat, Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette, Indianapolis
Star); Economics Reporter (Indianapolis Star). Automobile
industry and trade --United States --History. Small manufacturing
towns in Indiana (home to Ford, Chrysler, GM plants for
generations) hang in balance; highest proportion of
manufacturing jobs in nation, second only to Michigan in auto
industry-related jobs; monetary policies determined by
Washington, implemented by Wall Street, which devastated
Detroit; how Detroit auto industry stumbled, why decline
matters, how Obama administration squandered opportunity to
rebuild entire region in industrial heartland.
Caren Addis (1999).
Taking the Wheel: Auto Parts Firms and the Political Economy of
Industrialization in Brazil.
(University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press,
257 p.). Automobile supplies industry -- Brazil -- History;
Automobile industry and trade -- Brazil -- History;
Industrialization -- Brazil -- Case studies.
Jeffrey W. Alexander (2008).
Japan’s Motorcycle Wars: An Industry History.
(Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press, 276 p.).
Assistant Professor, History (University of Wisconsin-Parkside).
Motorcycle industry --Japan --History.
Historical development,
societal impact of motorcycle industry, from influence of motor
sports on vehicle sales in early 1900s to postwar developments
that led to massive wave of motorization sweeping Asia-Pacific
region today.
David Beasley (1988).
The Suppression of the Automobile: Skulduggery at the Crossroads
(New York, NY: Greenwood Press, 176 p.). Automobile industry and
trade --
History;
Automobiles, Steam -- History; Railroads -- History.
Ed. Garbriella Belli (2007).
Legends of the Open Road: The History, Technology and Future of
Automobile Design. (Milan, Italy: Skira, 560 p.).
Director of the Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento
e Rovereto (MART). Automotive Design; auto design -- history;
auto design -- technology.
Creative process of most
prestigious European, American car manufacturers in history;
design process, technological innovations.
Kevin L. Borg (2007).
Auto Mechanics: Technology and Expertise in Twentieth-Century
America. (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press,
264 p.). Professor of History (James Madison University).
Automobile repair shops--United States; Automobile industry and
trade--Social aspects--United States; Automobile
mechanics--United States; Automobiles--United
States--Maintenance and repair.
Emergence of dirty, difficult,
important profession; century of automotive technology
(horseless carriage to "check engine" light); how occupation
formed, evolved within context of class, race, gender; how
consumer rights, environmental movements, design of automotive
electronics reflected, challenged social identity,
expertise of the mechanic.
Compiled and edited by
Alfred D. Chandler (1964).
Giant Enterprise: Ford, General Motors, and the Automobile
Industry; Sources and Readings.
(New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, 242 p.). Professor
(Harvard Business School). Automobile industry and trade--United
States.
Compiled by Sheau-Yueh
J. Chao (1994).
The Japanese Automobile Industry: An Annotated Bibliography.
(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 216 p.). Professor, Baruch
College, City University of New York. Automobile Industry.
Roy Church (1995).
The Rise and Decline of the British Motor Industry.
(Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 144 p.). Automobile
industry and trade--Great Britain--History.
Sally H. Clarke (2006).
Trust and Power: Consumers, the Modern Corporation, and the
Making of the United States Automobile Market. (New
York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 314 p.). Associate
Professor of History (University of Texas at Austin). Automobile
industry and trade--United States--History.
Corporations have faced conflicts
with very consumers whose loyalty they sought: 1) car makers
produced; 2) state governments intermediated (product quality,
fair pricing, access to credit).
Michael A. Cusumano
(1985).
The Japanese Automobile Industry: Technology and Management at
Nissan and Toyota. (Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 487 p.). Nissan Jid¯osha Kabushiki
Kaisha; Toyota Jid¯osha K¯ogy¯o Kabushiki Kaisha; Automobile
industry and trade--Japan.
Ed Davis (1979).
One Man's Way. (Detroit, MI: E.
Davis Associates, 194 p.). First African American Auto Dealer.
Davis, Ed; Businesspeople--United States--Biography; Automobile
industry and trade--United States.
Ralph C. Epstein (1972).
The Automobile Industry; Its Economic and Commercial Development.
(New York, NY: Arno Press, 412 p. [orig. pub. 1928]). Automobile
industry and trade--United States--History.
James J. Flink (1988).
The Automobile Age. (Cambridge,
MA: MIT Press, 456 p.). Automobile industry and trade--United
States--History; Automobiles--Social aspects--United States;
Automobiles--History.
John Ford (2005).
Coachmaker: The Life & Times of Philip Godsal 1747-1826.
(Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK: Swan Hill Press, 256 p.). Godsal,
Philip, Coachmaking; Biographies & Memoirs.
Personal papers of Philip Godsal.
James Foreman-Peck, Sue
Bowden, and Alan McKinlay (1995). The British Motor Industry.
(New York, NY: Manchester University Press, 323 p.). Automobile
industry and trade--Great Britain--History.
Kelly Sims Gallagher (2006).
China Shifts Gears: Automakers, Oil, Pollution, and Development.
(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 216 p.). Director of the Energy
Technology Innovation Project at the Belfer Center for Science
and International Affairs at Harvard University's John F.
Kennedy School of Government. Automobile industry and
trade--China; Automobile industry and trade--Environmental
aspects--China; Automobile industry and trade--Energy
consumption--China.
Three U.S.-Chinese joint ventures: Beijing Jeep,
Shanghai GM, Chang'An Ford; explores environmental and economic
effects of technology transfer, policy implications of
"leapfrogging" to more advanced technology.
David Gelsanliter
(1990).
Jump Start: Japan Comes to the Heartland.
(New York, NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, 262 p.). Automobile
industry and trade--United States; Corporations,
Japanese--United States; Automobile industry workers--United
States--Attitudes.
Stephen B. Goddard
(2000).
Colonel Albert Pope and His American Dream Machines: The Life
and Times of a Bicycle Tycoon Turned Automotive Pioneer.
(Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 253 p.). Pope, Albert A. (Albert
Augustus), 1843-1909; Automobile industry and trade--United
States--Biography; Industrialists--United States--Biography;
Bicycles--United States--Biography; Highway engineers--United
States--Biography.
David Halberstam (1986).
The Reckoning. (New York, NY:
Morrow, 752 p.). Energy consumption--United States; Petroleum
industry and trade--United States; Automobiles--United
States--Fuel consumption; Automobile industry and trade--United
States.
James Hale (2006).
The Wonderful Wacky World of Marketingmobiles: Promotional
Vehicles 1900-2000. (Dorchester, UK: Veloce Publishing,
96 p.). Member of The Society of Automotive Historians. Some of
the most unusual and obscure product promotional vehicles from
around the globe ever to be driven on public highways, spanning
a 100-year period.
Melissa A. Hardy,
Lawrence Hazelrigg, and Jill Quadagno (1996).
Ending a Career in the Auto Industry: 30 and Out.
(New York, NY: Plenum Press, 272 p.). Automobile industry
workers--Retirement--United States; Early retirement--United
States--Case studies.
Simon Henley (2007).
The Architecture of Parking. (New York, NY: Thames &
Hudson, 256 p.). Principal, Buschow Henley architecture firm.
Garages; Garages -- history; Garages -- design.
Challenge of efficiently housing
maximum number of cars in well-designed space; form, function of
parking garage have influenced contemporary architects (Frank
Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid), popular culture - 1) classic
circular Marina City tower (Chicago, 2) Parcheggio Nuovo Salario
under construction (Rome); most influential aspects of parking
design.
Al Hesselbart (2007).
The Dumb Things Sold-- Just Like That!: A History of the
Recreational Vehicle Industry in America. (Benton,
KY: Legacy Ink Pub., 136 p.). Former General Manager of RV/MH
Heritage Foundation Recreational vehicle industry --United
States --History; Recreational vehicles --United States
--History. Profiles of the pioneers who built the RV
industry.
Paul Ingrassia and
Joseph B. White (1994).
Comeback: The Fall and Rise of the American Automobile Industry.
(New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 496 p.). Automobile industry
and trade--United States; Corporate turnarounds--United States.
Paul
Ingrassia (2010).
Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry’s Road From Glory
to Disaster.
(New York, NY, Random House, 302 p.). Former Detroit Bureau
Chief (Wall Street Journal), 1993 Winner of Pulitzer
Prize. Automobile industry and trade --United States
--History. American automobile industry's rise and demise; story
of hubris, denial, missed opportunities, self-inflicted wounds,
President of the United States's ushering two of Detroit's Big
Three car companies through bankruptcy; cost to American
taxpayers topped $100 billion (enough to buy every car, truck
sold in America in first half of 2009); factory floors to
small-town dealerships to Detroit's boardrooms to inner sanctums
of White House; why President Obama personally decided to save
Chrysler (many of his advisors opposed idea); story behind
Obama's dismissal of General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner, angry
reaction from GM's board (same people who had watched idly while
company plunged into penury); Was Detroit's self-destruction
inevitable? What were the key turning points? Why did Japanese
automakers manage American workers better than the American
companies themselves did?; dysfunctional corporate cultures,
Detroit's perverse system of "inverse layoffs", Detroit's
frustrated reformers, wrenching decisions that Ford executives
had to make to avoid GM's fate.
Paul Ingrassia (2012).
Engines of Change: A History of the
American Dream in Fifteen Cars. (New York, NY: Simon &
Schuster, 416 p.). Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Reuters.
Automobiles --United States --History; Automobiles --Social
aspects --United States --History.
America’s history is vehicular history; fifteen automobiles
(Corvette, Beetle, Chevy Corvair); personalities, tales behind
them (Robert McNamara’s unlikely role in Lee Iacocca’s Mustang,
John Z. DeLorean’s Pontiac GTO, Henry Ford’s Model T, Honda’s
Accord, BMW 3 Series, Jeep, others); how car has expressed
particularly American tension between lure of freedom,
obligations of utility; rise of American manufacturing,
suburbanization of country, birth of hippie, yuppie,
emancipation of women, more fateful episodes and eras (car’s
unintended consequences: trial lawyers, energy crises, urban
sprawl).
David Jeremiah (2007).
Representations of British Motoring. (Manchester, UK:
Manchester University Press, 258 p.). Research Professor in
Design History (University of Plymouth). Auto design -- history;
Auto images: Auto -- advertising -- history.
Landmarks of change, innovation
primarily in first forty years of twentieth century; myths ,
realities in print images generated by advertising campaigns,
motoring journals; particular attention directed towards
creative intervention of artist-illustrators; gender and
motoring.
David W. Jones (2008).
Mass Motorization + Mass Transit: An American History and Policy
Analysis. (Bloomington, IN:
Indiana University Press, 268 p.). Former Research Manager at
the Institute for Transportation Studies (University of
California at Berkeley). Transportation, Automotive --United
States --History; Transportation, Automotive --Government policy
--United States --History. History of mass transit, mass
motorization, highway development, suburbanization, differences
between motorization in United States and other advanced
industrial nations; how United States became world's most
thoroughly motorized nation; why mass transit has been more
displaced in United States than in any other advanced industrial
nation.
E.D. Kennedy (1941).
The Automobile Industry; The Coming of Age of Capitalism's
Favorite Child. (New York, NY:
Reynal & Hitchcock, 333 p.). Automobile industry and
trade--United States.
Beverly Rae Kimes
(2004).
Pioneers, Engineers, and Scoundrels: The Dawn of the Automobile
in America. (Warrendale, PA: SAE
International, 532 p.). Automobiles -- United States -- History;
Automobile industry and trade -- United States -- History.
Thomas A. Kinney (2004).
The Carriage Trade: Making Horse-Drawn Vehicles in
America. (Baltimore, MD: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 400 p.). Assistant Professor of
History (Bluefield College in Virginia). Carriage
industry--United States--History.
History of construction of horse-drawn vehicles in United
States; 1926 - Carriage Builders' National Association of the
United States met for last time; signaled automobile's final
triumph over horse-drawn carriage; rise and fall of
carriage-building industry, from pre-industrial shop system to
coming of automobile, one of largest, most dynamic industries in
country in 19th century (Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing
Company produced hundred wagons/day in 1880 -- one every six
minutes); batch-work approach to production flourished for
decades; successfully employed small-scale business,
manufacturing practices (vs. model of industrial development in
which hand tools, small firms, individual craftsmanship gave way
to mechanized factories).
David A. Kirsch (2000).
The Electric Vehicle and the Burden of History. (New
Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 308 p.). Assistant
Professor at the Robert H. Smith School of Business (University
of Maryland). Electric automobiles --History; Automobiles
--Design and construction --History; Automobile industry and
trade --United States --History. Automobile - material
embodiment of dynamic interaction of consumers and producers,
private and public institutions, existing and potential
capabilities, prevailing ideas about gender, health,
environment.
David N. Lucsko (2008).
The Business of Speed: The Hot Rod Industry in America,
1915-1990. (Baltimore, MD:
Johns Hopkins University Press, 343 p.). Managing Editor of
Technology and Culture. Hot rods --United States --History
--20th century. Culture and
technology of high-performance automotive aftermarket in United
States; evolution of performance tuning through lens of the
$34-billion speed equipment industry that supports it.
Theodore F. MacManus and
Norman Beasley (1929).
Men, Money, and Motors: The Drama of the Automobile.
(New York, NY: Harper & Bros., 284 p.). Automobile industry and
trade--United States.
Jonathan Mantle (1995).
Car Wars: Fifty Years of Greed, Treachery, and Skulduggery in
the the Global Marketplace. (New
York, NY: Arcade Pub., 253 p.). Automobile industry and
trade--History; International business enterprises--History;
Competition, International--History.
George S. May (1974).
A Most Unique Machine; The Michigan Origins of the American
Automobile Industry. (Grand
Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 408 p.). Automobile industry and
trade--Michigan--History.
Ed. George S. May
(1989).
The Automobile Industry, 1920-1980.
(New York, NY: Facts on File, 520 p.). Automobile industry and
trade--United States--History. Series: Encyclopedia of American
business history and biography.
--- (1990).
The Automobile Industry, 1896-1920.
(New York, NY: Facts on File, 485 p.). Automobile industry and
trade--United States--History; Automobile industry and
trade--United States--Biography; Industrialists--United
States--Biography.
Micheline Maynard
(2003).
The End of Detroit: How the Big Three Lost Their Grip on the
American Car Market. (New York,
NY: Currency/Doubleday, 327 p.). Automobile industry and
trade--United States; Automobile industry and trade--United
States--Forecasting; Competition, International.
Tom McCarthy (2007).
Auto Mania: Cars, Consumers, and the Environment. (New
Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 368 p.). Associate Professor,
History Department (United States Naval Academy). Automobile
industry and trade--United States--History--20th century;
Automobiles--Environmental aspects--United States--History--20th
century; Consumer behavior--United States--History--20th
century. Mixed record of
environmental reform, troubling prospects for future;
relationship between consumer capitalism and environment; how
consumer desire (and manufacturer decisions) created impacts
across product lifecycle (raw material extraction,
manufacturing, consumer use, disposal);automakers,
consumers powerful opponents of regulation.
Dan McNichol (2005).
The Roads That Built America: The Incredible Story of the U.S.
Interstate System.
(New York, NY: Sterling,
224 p.). Interstate Highway System -- History; Eisenhower,
President; Transportation -- United States.
2006 -
50th anniversary of U.S.
Interstate System, largest engineering project the world has
ever known.
Clay McShane (1994).
Down the Asphalt Path: The Automobile and the American City.
(New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 288 p.). Professor of
History (Northeastern University). Automobiles --Social aspects
--United States; City and town life --United States; Sociology,
Urban --United States. Urban
embrace of automobile; how new transportation systems,
new concepts of city redefined each other in modern America.
--- (1997).
The Automobile: A Chronology of Its Antecedents,
Development, and Impact. (Westport, CT:
Greenwood Press, 222 p.). Professor of History
(Northeastern University). Automobiles --United States
--History --Chronology; Automobiles --Social aspects
--United States --History --Chronology.
Complex issues surrounding adoption of automobiles by urban,
suburban, rural Americans; enormous changes that have
taken place in lives of automobile users, their
habitats.
Peter Norton (2008).
Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City.
(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 396 p.). Assistant Professor in the
Department of Science, Technology, and Society (University of
Virginia). Transportation, Automotive --Social aspects --United
States.; Transportation, Automotive --United States --History
--20th century.
Property
rights to roads, streets; had to be socially reconstructed as
places where motorists belonged; developments in crucial
transitional years (1910s to 1930s), broad anti-automobile
campaign; pedestrians, parents campaigned in moral terms;
cities, downtown businesses tried to regulate traffic in name of
"efficiency"; automotive interest groups legitimized claim to
streets by invoking "freedom".
Byron Olsen and Joseph
Cabadas; foreword by Ben Hamper (2002).
The American Auto Factory. (St. Paul, MN: MBI Pub.,
192 p.). Automobiles --United States --Design and construction
--History; Automobile industry and trade --United States
--History. Evolution of American auto factory, from hand-built
assembly of cars in earliest part of 20th century, through age
of assembly line, to today's robotically-operated lines;
workers, tools, methods, machines; significant automotive
industry events of past combined with today's technological
advances.
John B. Rae (1984). The
American Automobile Industry. (Boston, MA: Twayne
Publishers, 212 p.). Automobile industry and trade--United
States--History.
Steven Rattner (2010).
Overhaul: An Insider's Account of the Obama Administration's
Emergency Rescue of the Auto Industry. (New York, NY:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 336 p.). Former Reporter (New York
Times), Investment Banker, Head of Federal Government's
Automotive Intervention Team Automobile industry and trade
--Government policy --United States; Bankruptcy --Government
policy --United States; Industrial policy --United States;
United States --Economic policy --2009-. Intense 150-day
struggle to save American auto industry; political brinkmanship, corporate
mismanagement, personalities under pressure in high-stakes clash
between Washington and Detroit; tough choices made, working
against ticking clock, facing vocal opposition from free market
champions, to keep Chrysler and General Motors in operation.
Kenneth Richardson
(1977).
The British Motor Industry, 1896-1939.
(Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 258 p.). Automobile industry and
trade--Great Britain--History; Automobiles--Great
Britain--History.
Emma Rothschild (1973).
Paradise Lost; The Decline of the Auto-industrial Age.
(New York, NY: Random House, 264 p.). Automobile industry and
trade--United States.
James M. Rubenstein
(2001).
Making and Selling Cars: Innovation and Change in the U.S.
Automotive Industry. (Baltimore,
MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 401 p.). Professor of
Geography (Miami University in Oxford, OH).
Automobile industry and
trade--United States.
How
industry made adjustments, fostered innovations in both
production, marketing in order to remain a viable force
throughout twentieth-century.
Chris Sinsbaugh (1940). Who
Me! Forty Years of Automobile History. (Detroit, MI:
Arnold-Powers, Inc., 377 p.). Automobile industry and
trade--United States.
Lawrence H. Seltzer (1973).
A Financial History of the American Automobile Industry; A Study
of the Ways in Which the Leading American Producers of
Automobiles Have Met Their Capital Requirements. (Clifton,
NJ: A. M. Kelley, 297 p. [orig. pub. 1928]). Ford Motor Company;
General Motors Corporation; Automobile industry and
trade--United States; Automobile industry and trade--United
States--Finance.
Koichi Shimokawa (2010).
Japan and the Global Automotive Industry. (New York,
NY: Cambridge University Press, 327 p.). Professor in the
Faculty of Business Administration (Tokaigakuen University),
Emeritus Professor (Hosei University, Japan). Automobile
industry and trade -- Japan.
1980s - great success with 'Lean
Production System': efficient production system, effective
supplier system, product development system; 1990s - hard times
because of Japanese asset price bubble, extreme currency
appreciation; how Japanese automotive industry recovered; how
firms like Toyota transferred Japanese systems to overseas
plants, how they changed in order to compete in increasingly
globalized markets; two major challenges to current industry
model: rise of China, environmental and energy supply situation.
Lewis Siegelbaum (2008).
Cars for Comrades: The Life of the Soviet Automobile.
(Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 309 p.). Professor of
History (Michigan State University). Automobile industry and
trade--Soviet Union--History; Automobiles--Soviet
Union--History. From
construction of huge "Soviet Detroits," emblems of utopian phase
of Soviet planning, to present-day Togliatti, (where fate of
Russia's last auto plant hangs in balance); large role played by
American businessmen, engineers; ironic parallels between Soviet
story, decline of American Detroit; automobile epitomized,
exacerbated contradictions between what Soviet communism
encouraged, what it provided.
Vaclav Smil (2010).
Prime Movers of Globalization: The History and Impact of Diesel
Engines and Gas Turbines. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,
264 p.). Distinguished Professor (University of Manitoba).
Diesel motor --History; Gas turbines --History; Technology and
civilization; Transportation --Technological innovations
--History; Motor vehicles --Motors --History; Globalization
--History. Technologies behind creation of globalized economy;
history of two key technical developments: 1) high-compression
non-sparking internal combustion engines invented by Rudolf
Diesel in 1890s; 2) gas turbines designed by Frank Whittle, Hans-Joachim Pabst von Ohain in 1930s; massive diesel
engines power cargo ships, gas turbines propel jet
engines - more important to global economy than any corporate
structure, international trade agreement; gradual technical advances that received little attention, resulted in epochal shifts in global affairs, global
economy.
Robert Sobel (1984).
Car Wars: The Untold Story. (New
York, NY: Dutton, 371 p.). Academic (Hofstra University).
Automobile industry and trade--United States; Automobile
industry and trade--Germany (West); Automobile industry and
trade--Japan.
Robert Sobel with Paul
Sarnoff (1969).
The Automobile Makers. (New York,
NY: Putnam, 192 p.). Academic (Hofstra University). Automobile
industry and trade--United States--Juvenile literature;
Automobile industry and trade.
Robert Szudarek (2000).
The First Century of the Detroit Auto Show. (Warrendale,
PA: Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), 277 p.). North
American International Auto Show (Detroit, Mich.)--History;
Automobiles--Michigan--Detroit--Exhibitions--History.
David Thoms and Tom
Donnelly (2000).
The Coventry Motor Industry: Birth to Renaissance?
(Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 232 p.).
Automobile industry and trade--England--Coventry--History.
Richard Vahrenkamp (2010).
The German Autobahn, 1920-1945: Hafraba
Visions and Mega Projects. (Cologne, Germany: Josef Eul,
266 p.). Express highways -- Germany -- History; Express
highways -- Europe -- History; Express highways -- Government
policy -- Germany; Express highways -- Germany -- Design and
construction; Transportation and state -- Germany.
Michael Wallis and Michael S.
Williamson (2007).
The Lincoln Highway: Coast to Coast from Times Square to the
Golden Gate. (New York, NY: Norton, 293 p.). Journalist;
Photographer (Washington Post). Automobile travel--United
States; Lincoln Highway--History; United States--Description and
travel; Lincoln Highway--Pictorial works.
Completed in 1913 - 3,389 miles,
13 states, from bright lights of Broadway to shores of San
Francisco.
H. Eugene Weiss (2003).
Chrysler, Ford, Durant, and Sloan: Founding Giants of the
American Automotive Industry.
(Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 188 p.). Archivist of the
DaimlerChrysler Corporate Historical Collection. Automobile
industry and trade--United States--Biography;
Automobiles--United States--History; Industrialists--United
States--Biography.
C.H. Wendel (1993).
Fairbanks Morse: 100 Years of Engine Technology. (Lancaster,
PA: Stemgas Pub. Co., 175 p.). Fairbanks, Morse and
Company--History; Motor industry--United States--History;
Internal combustion engine industry--United States--History;
Machinery industry--United States--History;
Engines--History--19th century; Engines--History--20th century.
Timothy R. Whisler
(1995).
At the End of the Road: The Rise and Fall of Austin-Healey, MG,
and Triumph Sports Cars.
(Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 308 p.). Automobile industry and
trade--Great Britain; Sports cars--Great Britain.
--- (1999).
The British Motor Industry, 1945-1994: A Case Study in
Industrial Decline. (New York, NY:
Oxford University Press, 428 p.). Automobile industry and
trade--Great Britain--History.
Lawrence J. White
(1971).
The Automobile Industry Since 1945.
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 348 p.). Automobile
industry and trade--United States.
James P. Womack, Daniel T.
Jones, Daniel Roos (1991).
The Machine That Changed the World: The Story of Lean Production.
(New York, NY: HarperPerennial, 323 p.). Roos - Director of the
International Motor Vehicle Program at MIT. Automobile industry
and trade--Japan. Based on
the MIT $5-million, 5-year, fourteen-country International Motor
Vehicle Program's study of the worldwide auto industry; lean
production is Japanese secret weapon in industrial wars; welds
activities of everyone from top management to line workers, to
suppliers, into tightly integrated whole that can 1) respond
almost instantly to marketing demands from consumers, 2) double
production and quality, while keeping costs down.
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Business History Links
ALFA Romeo History
http://www.alfaromeo.com/com/#/history/timeline
Antique Automobile Club of America Museum
http://www.aacamuseum.org
Founded in 1993, the AACA
Museum is dedicated to the celebration, preservation, education
and display of motor vehicle history. This museum presents a
comprehensive history of the automobile through its collection
of more than 5,000 artifacts including 130 vehicles, jacks,
toys, tools, gas pumps, advertising materials, and manufactured
collectibles.
The Auto Industry's
Family Trees
http://www.historyshots.com/automobiles/
Brief background
about the history of the American auto industry. "Of the several
thousand auto manufacturers who have operated in the United
States, only three remain. But many nameplates that were once
well-known are in the family trees of those three surviving auto
makers." Discusses contributions of Ransom E. Olds (Oldsmobiles),
who was the first to produce cars in Detroit, David Dunbar
Buick, Horace Dodge, William Durant, and others. From The
Detroit News.
Automotive Hall of Fame
http://www.automotivehalloffame.org/
October 18, 1939 - Group of men who had dedicated their lives to
the progress of the motor vehicle industry, met in New York City, created an organization to perpetuate the memories of
the early automotive pioneers and contemporary
leaders in the industry; originally called "Automobile Old Timers" -- was dedicated to
honoring automotive people from all industry segments and from
around the world; has inducted over 200 individuals; dedicated to:
recognizing
outstanding achievement in the automotive and related
industries; preserving automotive heritage; educating future
generations of industry participants.
BMW Museum
http://www.bmw-welt.com/en/visitor_information/guided_tours/museum.html
More than 90 years
of BMW heritage in all its facets; integrates key aspects typical of BMW in seven thematic blocks.
Center for Automotive
Research
http://www.cargroup.org/
Nonprofit organization focused on a wide variety of important
trends and changes related to the automobile industry and
society at the international, federal, state and local levels; conducts industry research, develops new methodologies,
forecasts industry trends, advises on public policy, and
sponsors multi-stakeholder communication forums; research studies
investigate how international, federal and local issues
influence the industry, and how the industry affects society in
such areas as employment, the environment and the consumer.
Centre for Automotive
Industry Research
http://business.cardiff.ac.uk/centre-automotive-industry-research
Founded in 1991, CAIR aims to remain the leading academic centre
in the EU dedicated to the study of the economic and strategic
aspects of the world motor industry by
adding ' intellectual capital' to the sector through research
for government and industry, teaching and
publications. CAIR's principal strength is its broad overview of
the worldwide automotive sector; research
covers many different areas (materials supply,
manufacturing, retail to wider policy issues affecting the
automotive industry).
Walter P. Chrysler
Museum
http://www.chryslerheritage.com/
Opened October 5, 1999 - where automotive history is learned and
explored and the history of Chrysler vehicles is experienced.
Brand Chronology -
http://www.chryslerheritage.com/pg500brands.php
Ford Motor Company's
100th Anniversary
http://www.ford.com/en/heritage/centennial/default.htm
Henry Ford Museum &
Greenfield Museum
www.hfmgv.org
Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village is
an independent, non-profit, educational institution not
affiliated with the Ford Motor Company or the Ford Foundation.
Library and Special Collections - Automotive history holdings
make up the largest collection topic; includes automotive
product literature from virtually every American automobile
manufacturer and selected foreign manufacturers, automobile
advertising and promotional material, extensive
collection of books and periodicals from Accelerator to Z Club
Bulletin. Other books and periodicals reflect the museum's
interest in American social history, the history of technology,
transportation, agriculture, leisure and entertainment, and the
growth and development of consumer products.
General Motors History
http://www.gm.com/company/historyAndHeritage.html
GM FastLane Blog
http://fastlane.gmblogs.com/
"The FastLane blog is your source for the latest, greatest
musings of GM leaders on topics relevant to the company, the
industry and the global economy, and -- most of all -- to our
customers and other car enthusiasts."
Hog Heaven: Celebrating
100 Years of the Harley-Davidson
http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/harley100/
Traces the history of the Harley-Davidson motorcycle through
images and source materials from Library of Congress
collections; features photos and prints of
the motorcycle at work, at play, and at war, advertising images and newspaper articles;
includes
bibliographies of the history of the motorcycle, the
Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Company, and works with illustrations
of Harley-Davidsons.
August Horch
Museum
http://www.horch-museum.de/
Located in the town of Zwickau, in Western Saxony,
the place where August Horch worked for decades, in the
heart of the former Audi plant, one of the birthplaces of
automotive history from Horch to Audi and further on to the
"Trabant"; legendary automotive history in a
comprehensively refurbished building with a completely
redesigned exhibition in an absolutely unique atmosphere since
September 10, 2004.
The Interstate Is 50
http://www.interstate50th.org/index.shtml
2006 marked the 50th anniversary of the federal law
that brought America its unparalleled Interstate Highway System
(46,508-mile web of superhighways; has transformed nation
and economy; symbol of freedom and a tribute to
human ingenuity. American Association of State Highway and
Transportation Officials (AASHTO), which represents the state
departments of transportation in the 50 states, the District of
Columbia, and Puerto Rico, introduces history of
the Interstate Highway System, plans to "Celebrate the
Interstate!" both nationally and in individual states, some
of the policy questions the nation faces.
Mifflinburg Buggy Museum
http://www.buggymuseum.org/
1883 to 1920 - William A.
Heiss operated a successful buggy making business. As the demand
for automobiles grew, the demand for horse-drawn vehicles
declined; 1931 - factory was closed. For years, the building was
used for storage, but mostly it lay forgotten; May 1978 - group
of Mifflinburg citizens, led by Dr. Charles McCool Snyder, a
retired history professor, saw first glimpse of the Heiss Coach
Works (tools, a hit & miss engine, horseshoes, tires, wheels,
dashboards, upholstered seats, paints, catalogs for parts and
his own account books); recognized as one of only twelve
craft/industrial museums in the United States that preserves and
interprets an original site.
Motorcycle Hall of
Fame
http://www.motorcyclemuseum.org/
The Motorcycle Hall of Fame recognizes those who have made
significant contributions to all aspects of American
motorcycling, including those who have excelled in motorcycle
business, history, design and engineering, those
known for their contributions to road riding, off-road riding
and all categories of motorcycle racing.
National
Automotive History Collection
http://www.detroit.lib.mi.us/featuredcollection/national-automotive-history-collection
Located in the Rose and Robert Skillman Branch Library of the
Detroit Public Library, the National Automotive History
Collection (NAHC) is regarded as the nation's premier public
automotive archive (established as a collection in 1953); documents the history and development of the automobile and
other forms of motorized, wheeled, land transportation in the
United States and abroad; contains resources of over 600,000
processed items.
National Motorcycle Museum
http://www.nationalmcmuseum.org/
Founded in 1989; over 300
vintage and collectible motorcycles including the original
documented authentic Captain America Bike from the movie Easy
Rider; offers perspective on casual motorcycling and racing,
taste of American motorcycle culture; arranged in themes.
Rolls-Royce Centenary
Website
http://100.rolls-royce.com/index.jsp
RV Museum and
Hall of Fame
http://www.rvmhhalloffame.org/
March 22, 1972 - Group of trade and consumer magazine publishers,
attending Mobile Home Manufacturers Association meeting in
Washington DC, formed RV/MH Heritage Foundation to maintain national
RV/MH Hall of Fame: recognized industry pioneers and leaders,
perpetuated heritage of the industry, provided repository for
archives and memorabilia.
Alfred P. Sloan Museum
http://www.sloanlongway.org/sloan-museum/about-sloan-museum/alfred-p-sloan
Emphasis on Flint's automobile history
(named for first
president of General Motors, Alfred Sloan). Flint is the
birthplace of GM.
Studebaker National
Museum
http://www.studebakermuseum.org/
Taking the Wheel:
Manufacturers’ Catalogs from the First Decade of American
Automobiles
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/explore/?col_id=153
Back in the old days, before the creation of the Interstate
Highway System and guarantee of a smooth roadbed, riding around
in a flivver could be a hazardous proposition. Fortunately,
prospective buyers could often consult any number of
well-illustrated (and detailed) car catalogs provided by the
dozens of automobile manufacturers that dotted the American
landscape. New York Public Library's Digital Gallery has
digitized significant number of these catalogs, placed online for the general public
(date
from 1909); catalogs include offerings from Buick, Delaunay, E.R. Thomas, Maxwell catalog from 1909, which features
cars that are described as "Perfectly Simple and Simply
Perfect").
TOYOTA
Commemorative Museum of Industry and Technology
http://www.tcmit.org/english/
Established on June 11, 1994, the 100th anniversary of the birth
of Kiichiro Toyoda, founder of Toyota Motor Corporation. The
museum stands on the site of a plant established by Sakichi
Toyoda, marks the birthplace of the Toyota Group - intended
to convey the importance of "making things" to the young persons
who carry the responsibility for the future.
University of Michigan
Transportation Research Institute
http://www.umtri.umich.edu
The University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute
(UMTRI) was established in 1965 (initial gift of $10
million); projects include accident data collection,
traffic safety analysis, bioengineering, and public policy; divided into six primary areas: "Transportation Expertise",
"UMTRI Library", "Data at UMTRI", "Educational Opportunities"
(current, past areas of project design and execution),
"Facilities & Services" (research capabilities and facilities),
"Popular Links" (Center for National Truck and Bus Statistics,
Road Roughness Site).
Auto Museums in Michigan and Ohio
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/20/automobiles/collectibles/20-museums-upper-midwest.html
Volkswagen Group History
http://www.volkswagenag.com/content/vwcorp/content/en/the_group/history.html
User-friendly internet archive of
Volkswagen's 70 years of existence
(produced by Corporate
History Department at Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, headed by
Dr. Manfred Grieger); history of the mobility group from the
establishment of "Gesellschaft zur Vorbereitung des Deutschen
Volkswagens mbH" in 1937 through the founding of the first
foreign subsidiary in Canada in 1952 to the production start of
the Tiguan in 2007; detailed insight into the development of the
company hardcover version of the "Volkswagen Chronicle" in its
"Historical Notes" series also available.
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