automobile industry and trade

Photographs and text help trace the history of Detroit's auto industry, and discuss the influence the city had on the development and manufacturing of cars in the United States.

Presents information about more than sixty careers for people who love cars, focusing on the more unusual aspects of automobiling, and including comments from people working in the various fields.

Biography of Henry Ford, famous for building the internal combustion engine, which he later used to create the automobile.

Photographs and text provide facts about the life of Henry Ford, inventor of the first modern car and the assembly line.

Contains a guide to jobs in the automotive industry, and includes career profiles for each job, including duties, salary range, employment prospects, advancement, and prerequisites for jobs in design and production, repair and restoration, transportation, sales, and racing. Includes appendix and index.

Tells the life story of Henry Ford, the creator of the Model T, discussing his impact on the American lifestyle and his significance in the history of the automobile industry.

Discusses the business philosophies and practices of automaker BMW, covering how it emerged from the destruction of World War II to become one of the most profitable car companies in the world.

A brief biography of the man whose Model T automobile made the gasoline powered car affordable to Americans, selling in 1908 for eight hundred and twenty-five dollars.

Presents a short biography of Henry Ford, the creator of the factory assembly line in the early 1900s and chronicles his family and childhood, his work as an apprentice and invention of the quadricycle and creation of the Ford Motor Company and the Model T automobile.