| Pioneers of the U.S. Automobile Industry uses four separate volumes to explore the essential components that helped build the American automobile industry - the people, the companies and the designs. This volume uses more than 450 photos to help weave the story of the risk-takers who helped shape the automotive industry from the very beginning.Pioneers and companies covered in this edition include: Charles and Frank Duryea, Studebaker, The Pratt Family and the Elcar Motor Care Company, Joseph Moon, Russell Gardner, Louis Clarke, George Pierce and Charles Clifton, Packard/Joy/Macauley and the Packard Motor Car Company, Edwin Thomas, Ransom Olds, Peerless, Fred and August Duesenberg, Kissel Brothers, Hupp / Drake / Hastings / Young and the Hupp Motor Car Corporation, Walter FlandersChapin / Coffin / Bezner / Jackson / Hudson / McAneeny and The Hudson Motor Car Company, Harry Stutz, Harry Ford, Graham Brothers, Charles Nash |
