American Auto Factory; Author: Olsen, Byron; Joint Author: Cabadas, Joe; Hardback; Book

Author: Olsen, Byron; Joint Author: Cabadas, Joe
Hardback; Book; 200 B&w & 50 Colour Illustrations
192 pages
Published: August 2002
Motorbooks International
ISBN: 0760310599

Witness the evolution of the American auto factory beginning with the basic hand-built assembly of cars in the earliest part of the twentieth century, through the age of the assembly line, and up to today's robotically-operated lines. Concentrating on the 1920s to 1950s, large photographs of the assembly lines in action send readers into nostalgic old factories. See the workers, the tools, the methods and the machines that combined their efforts with the ingenuity of industry players like Henry Ford, Ransom Olds. Walter Chrysler, and others to make possible the automobile's worldwide proliferation and availability. Flash back in time to witness the factories decade by decade in never-before-published vintage photographs. Featured automakers include Ford, GM and Chrysler, along wiStarts with the basic assembly of cars, moves on to the age of the assembly line, and then to todays robotic automated lines.