The Story of the Car By Peter Roberts

The Story of the Car By Peter Roberts

Hardcover

ISBN 1850514410

Publisher: Treasure Press 1989

Condition: Good. The original boards without a DJ are a little shelf rubbed and edge worn. This book was read and enjoyed but is still overall good. The book has no inscriptions and the binding is excellent.

Computer-designed, robot-built, many of today's cars seem to have travelled an infinite distance since the first motorised vehicles were let loose on the public highways. In fact the modern machines work on the same principles as did those of their ancestors of eighty years ago, they use the same fuel and, in spite of their vastly different looks, are opened in very similar ways. In this book the author traces the line of descent, paying tribute to Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler who made the motoring age possible and to men such as Henry Ford who pioneered mass production.