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Mack - A Living Legend of the Highway
Anotace
| Vazba: | Brožovaná | ||
| Počet stran: | 224 | ||
| Rozměry v mm: | 210 x 280 | ||
| Počet obrázků: | 300 | ||
| Rok vydání: | 1980 | ||
"Built like a Mack truck," has, since the World War II era, been a popular expression for ruggedness, gigantic size, and stamina. In this book, John B. Montville unfolds the exciting history of the company whose product has literally become part of the English language, as well as a major force in world trucking. From a 19th century wagon builder to the Maxidyne-powered mammoths of today's trucking industry, the history of Mack Trucks, Inc., is traced in great and frank detail. All the fascinating lore surrounding the early development of Manhattan trucks and buses, and the af-filiated Hewitt and Saurer trucks, are related and their story also brough into proper perspective Montville has explored the grand old stories that sue round the name Mack, and with documented facts has added as much glamour to the product as any legends ever did It was his interest in recording the full story that helped in the decision of Mack management to make cer• fain historical files available, that are not normally open to researchers. This second edition of Mack carries this pro-duct and corporate history through the year 1980, and contains an entirely new chapter covering the fuel crisis and Mack's new products specially engineered to cope with this national emergency
JOHN B. MONTVILLE must be considered as one of the world leading commercial vehicle historians, and his extensive contributions to Old Motor magazine and to Automobile Quarterly's prestigious Packard history, and The American Car Since 1775. which includes his listing of 1700 truck builders, certainly bears this out. A great grandson of a Canadian-born railroad con-tractor, John was born in Port Washington, N.Y., in 1932. Infected with an avid interest in rail history by his family's association with that industry, John's interest in trans-portation history expanded to include the automobile by the early 1940's However, since the early 1950's he has Concentrated on the study of truck and trucking history, which has become his life's work John is a life member of the Antique Automobile Club of America. and a member of the Society of Automotive Historians, American Truck Historical Society, Motor Bus Society, National Railway Historical Society, and Branford Electric Railway Association.
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