Story of the automobile: Its history and development from 1760 to 1917: With an analysis of the standing and prospects of the automobile industryBarber, H. L. (Herbert Lee)
History
Story of the automobile: Its history and development from 1760 to 1917: With an analysis of the standing and prospects of the automobile industry
Barber, H. L. (Herbert Lee)
Automobiles -- History
Number of automobiles produced in 1908, 34
Number of automobiles produced in 1909-10-11-12-13-14-15-16, 30, 34,
100, 139, 150
Number of commercial vehicles produced in 1915, 146
Number of commercial vehicles produced in 1916, 28, 140, 147
Number of farms in United States, 146
Number of miles of roads improved and unimproved in United States, 168
Number of passenger automobiles produced in 1916, 28
Number of people in United States with incomes over $1,800, 41
Number of people in United States with incomes over $1,200, 41
Number of “rich” people in the United States, 145
Oakland Motor Car Co., 96, 227
Ohio Electric Car Co., 96, 227
Olds, successful American auto builder, 81, 95, 115, 227
Opposition, early, to automobile “craze”, 104, 105
Otto, inventor of gas engine, 69, 113
Output of automobile makers, how planned, 41
Packard Motor Car Co., 95, 193, 227, 238
Paige-Detroit Motor Car Co., 96, 193, 227
Panhard, French maker of gasoline cars, 72, 78
Pecqueur, discoverer of principle of “differential”, 62, 63, 77
Peerless Motor Car Co., 95, 181, 187, 227
Percentage gain automobile production 1915 over 1914, 28
Percentage gain automobile production 1916 over 1915, 28
Per cent of value added by manufacture to automobiles, 82
Period of automobile industry’s greatest development in the United
States, 76
Perlman Rim Corporation, 183, 189, 197, 198
Peugeot, French maker of gasoline cars, 72, 78
Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Co., 95, 181, 187, 195, 197, 227
Pope Manufacturing Co., 108, 182, 188
Portage Rubber Co., 193
Premier Motor Corporation, 95, 228
Present trend of automobile, accessories and tire securities, 205,
206, 228
Princess Motor Car Corporation, 183, 189, 228
Prospects when war ends for automobile industry, 47, 48
Pullman Motor Car Co., 95, 228
Quantity production of automobiles, 41, 43, 92, 98, 101
Rate of growth of automobile production and registration compared
with population, 208
Ratio of voting men to each registered automobile in United States,
210, 211
“Rauch & Lang” automobile, 95, 228
Regal Motor Car Co., 96, 228
Registration of automobiles; increase since 1906, 174
Reliability contests; value of, 34, 35, 36
Reo Motor Car Co., 96, 193, 228, 239
Republic Motor Truck Co., 181, 187, 189, 195, 239
Republic Rubber Co., 193
Retail sales of motor vehicles in 1916, 28
Riker, builder of steam cars, 78, 115, 118, 239
Rims, demountable, 123
Roper, S. H., builder of first modern steam car in United States, 70
Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co., 178, 180, 190
Ryan, Thomas F., early automobile capitalist, 108
Sampson, 201
Saturation, point of, not imminent, 31, 145, 146, 151, 176, 209, 214
Saxon Motors Co., 96, 178, 180, 183, 189, 190, 228
Scripps-Booth Corporation, 96, 181, 187, 228
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