Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile: Coachbuilding
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advanced research in coachbuilding
Alfa Romeo
AUS
Automobile
Automobile Body Manufacturing
automotive history
Brian Sewell
Brougham
Car Bodies
Car Chassis
Cartwright
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Coachbuilding
Custom Bodies
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Estate Car
GB
Hillman Minx
historical car restoration
Horse-drawn carriage
industrial heritage studies
Kg
MSH
Olympia Show
OSI
Park Ward
Postwar
postwar manufacturing trends
Sports Saloon
Superb
Talbots
Town Car
transportation engineering
USA
Van Den Plas
VCM
vehicle design evolution
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781579583675
- Weight: 1406g
- Dimensions: 219 x 276mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 2001
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This volume explores the art of coachbuilding from its roots in the late nineteenth century through to the inevitable decline that set in during the 1950's. This definitive work explores both the great names and the forgotten innovators of the industry with the detailed entries and generous illustrations that have won the Encyclopedia of the Automobile critical raves and legions of fans on both sides of the Atlantic.
Nick Georgano was born in London in February 1932. He began his career as a motoring writer at the age of 7 when he prepared a truck catalogue which was typed out by his long-suffering mother. He was 16 when he first attempted to write an 'encyclopedia'. On coming down from Oxford in 1956 he became a preparatory schoolmaster during which time he helped his friend Ralph Doyle to revise his The World's Automobiles . Nick completed this after Ralph's death in 1961, an invaluable apprenticeship for editing the Complete Encyclopedia of Motorcars, first published in 1968. On the strength of this he abandoned the schoolroom for the typewriter and has since edited or written 31 titles including The Complete Encyclopedia of Commercial Vehicles (editor), The Encyclopedia of Motor Sport (editor), A History of Transport (editor), History of Sports Cars, History of the London Taxicab, Early Days on the Road (with Lord Montagu of Beaulieu), The American Automobile - a Centenary, The Art of the American Automobile, Britain's Motor Industry - The First 100 Years (editor). For the latter and for The Complete Encyclopedia of Motorcars he was awarded the Montagu Trophy of the Guild of Motoring Writers. He was Head Librarian at the National Motor Museum from 1976 to 1981. He is a member of the National Motor Museum Advisory Council and Trustee of the Michael Sedgwick Memorial Trust and the Horseless Carriage Foundation, California.
