Select Bibliography 1.0 on the History of the Automobile and American Life -- Books

This is a work-in progress, the result of my consolidating and organizing my many files on the history the automobile in America. It is not complete nor definitive, but it does provide solid basis that should help anyone working in the field. The Bibliography listing books only will be updated from time to time, and as I do so this post will be deleted. You can also find separate bibliography on journal articles on another blog post.

Books

Adler, Dennis. Chrysler.Osceola, WI: MBI, 2000.

------. Duesenberg. N.P: Krause Publications, 2004.

Allen, Frederick Lewis. Only Yesterday.New York: Harper and Row, 1931.

Antonick, Michael. California Screamin’: The Glory Days of Corvette Road Racing.Osceola, WI: MBI, 1990.

Arnold, Horace Lucien, and Fay Leone Faurote. Ford Methods and Ford Shops.New York: The Engineering Magazine Company, 1915.  

Assael, Shaun.Wide Open: Days and Nights on the NASCAR Tour.New York: Ballantine Books, 1998.

Bailey, Beth L. From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America.Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988.

Baime, A.J. The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War.New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.

Baldwin, Neil. Henry Ford and the Jews: The Mass Production of Hate.New York: Public Affairs, 2001.

Barnard, John. American Vanguard: The United Autoworkers during the Reuther Years, 1935-1970. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2004.

Barnes, H.E. Society in Transition.New York: Prentice Hall, 1939.

Batchelor, Dean. Dry Lakes and Drag Strips: The American Hot Rod.St. Paul, MN: MBI, 2002.

Batchelor, Ray. Henry Ford:Mass Production, Modernism and Design.Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1994.  

Bayley, Stephen. Harley Earl and the Dream Machine. New York: Knopf, 1983.

------. Sex, Drink and Fast Cars.New York: Pantheon, 1986.

Beasley, David. The Suppression of the Automobile: Skullduggery at the Crossroads.New York and Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1988.

Beatley, Timothy. Green Urbanism: Learning from European Cities.Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2000.

Belasco, Warren James. Americans on the Road: From Autocamp to Motel, 1910-1945.Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979.

Bel Geddes, Norman. Magic Motorways.New York: Random House, 1940.

Belloc, Hilaire. The Road.New York: Harper & Brothers, 1925.

Berger, Michael L. The Devil Wagon in God’s Country: The Automobile and Social Change in Rural America, 1893-1929.Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1979.

Bernstein, Arnold. A History of The American Worker: The Turbulent Years 1933-1941. Los Angeles: University of California, 1969.

Billington, David P., and David P. Billington, Jr.Power, Speed, and Form: Engineers and the Making of the Twentieth Century. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006.

Binder, Alan K., and Deebe Ferris, eds. General Motors in the 20th Century. Southfield, MI: Wards Communications, 2000.

Blackford, Mansel G., and K. Austin Kerr. B. F. Goodrich: Tradition and Transformation, 1870-1995. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1996.  

Blank, Harrod. Wild Wheels. San Francisco: Pomegranate Artbooks, 1993.

Blanke, David. Hell on Wheels: The Promise and Peril of America’s Car Culture, 1900-1940. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 2007.

Bliss, Carey S. Autos Across America: A Bibliography of Transcontinental Automobile Travel: 1903-1940.Austin and New Haven: Jenkins & Reese, 1982.

Blum, John Morton. V Was For Victory: Politics and American Culture during World War II. New York: First Harvest, 1976.

Borg, Kevin L. Automechanics: Technology and Expertise in Twentieth-Century America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.

Borgeson, Griffith. Miller. Osceola, WI: Motorbooks, 1993.

Bonsall, Thomas E. The Cadillac Story: The Postwar Years. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004.

Bottles, Scott. Los Angeles and the Automobile: The Making of a Modern City. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1987.

Boyer, Paul S. By Bomb’s Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age.New York: Pantheon, 1985. 

Bradsher, Keith. High and Mighty: SUVs – the World’s most Dangerous Vehicles and How They Got that Way. New York: Public Affairs, 2002.   

Braverman, Harry. Labor and Monopoly Capital: the Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century.New York: Monthly Review Press, 1974.

Breer, Carl. The Birth of Chrysler Corporation and its Engineering Legacy.Warrendale, PA: Society of Automotive Engineers, 1995.

Brinkley, Douglas. Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress, 1903-2003.New York: Viking, 2003.

Brown, Kurt, ed. Drive, They Said: Poems about Americans and Their Cars.Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed, 1994.

Brown, Lester R., Christopher Flavin, and Colin Norman. Running on Empty: The Future of the Automobile in an Oil-Short World.New York: W. W. Norton, 1979.

Buehrig, Gordon M. Auburn. The Year 1936 is Viewed 50 Years Later. N.P.: n.p., 1986.

Buel, Ronald. Dead End: the Automobile in Mass Transportation. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1972.

Burlingame, Roger. Henry Ford. New York: Knopf, 1955. 

Burnside, Tom, and Denise McCluggage. American Racing: Road Racing in the 50s and 60s. Cologne: Kőnemann, 1996.

Burton, Walter. The Story of Tire Beads and Tires.New York: McGraw-Hill, 1954.

Butler, Don. Auburn Cord Duesenberg.Osceola, WI: Motorbooks, 1992.

Carson, Iain, and Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran. Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future. New York: Twelve, 2007.

Casey, Robert. The Model T: A Centennial History.Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.

Chandler, Alfred D. Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of Industrial Enterprise.Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1962.

Chrysler Corporation. The Story of an American Company.Detroit, MI: Chrysler, 1955.

Clarke, Sally H. Trust and Power: Consumers, the Modern Corporation, and the Making of the United States Automobile Market. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Clymer, Floyd. Floyd Clymer’s Steam Car Scrapbook.New York: Bonanza Books, 1945.

------. Henry’s Wonderful Model T 1908-1927.New York: McGraw-Hill, 1955.

------. Those Wonderful Old Automobiles.New York: Bonanza, 1953.

Cowan, Ruth Schwartz. More Work for Mother.New York: Basic Books, 1983.

Cray, Ed. Chrome Colossus: General Motors and Its Times.New York: McGraw-Hill, 1980.

Crews, Harry. Car.New York: William Morrow, 1972.

Critchlow, Donald T. Studebaker: The Life and Death of an American Corporation.Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1996.

Crosse, Jesse. The Greatest Movie Car Chases of all Time.St. Paul, MN: Motorbooks, 2006.

Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, and Eurgen Rochenberg-Halton. The Meaning of Things: Domestic Symbols and Self.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.

Curico, Vincent. Chrysler: The Life and Times of an Automotive Genius.New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Cusumano, Michael A. The Japanese Automobile Industry: Technology and Management at Nissan andToyota.Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985.

Dammann, George H. Seventy Years of Chrysler.Glen Ellyn, IL: Crestline, 1974.

Davis, Michael W. R. Detroit’s Wartime Industry, Arsenal of Democracy.Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2007.

Davis, Mike. Buda’s Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb.London: Verso, 2007.

Davis, Susan S. The Stanleys: Renaissance Yankees: Innovation in Industry and the Arts.New York: Newcomen Society of the United States, 1997.

Deming, W. Edwards. Out of the Crisis.Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1982.

Dettelbach, Cynthia Golob. In the Driver’s Seat: The Automobile in American Literature and Popular Culture.Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1976.

Donaldson, Gary. Abundance and Anxiety: America, 1945-1960. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997.

Donnelly, Nora, ed. Customized: Art Inspired by Hot Rods, Low Riders and American Car Culture.New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2000.

Downey, Fairfax. Jezebel the Jeep.New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1944.

Duncan, Dayton. Horatio’s Drive: America’s First Road Trip.New York: Knopf, 2003.

Dunne, Michael J. American Wheels Chinese Roads: The Story of General Motors in China. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons, 2011.

Duryea, J. Frank. America’s First Automobile.Springfield, MA: Macaulay, 1942.

Eastman, Joel W. Styling vs. Safety: The American Automobile Industry and the Development of Automotive Safety, 1900–1966.Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1984.

Ebert, Robert R. Champion of the Lark: Harold Churchhill and the Presidency of Studebaker Packard, 1956-1961.Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2013.

____________. Studebaker and Byers A. Burlingame: End of an Automotive Legacy. Berea, OH: Cicero Books, 2016.

Elbert, J. L. Duesenberg: the Mightiest American Motor Car.Arcadia, CA: Post-Era Books, 1975.

Farber, David R. Sloan Rules: Alfred P. Sloan and the Triumph of General Motors.Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.

Faris, John T. Roaming American Highways.New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1931.

Felsen, Henry Gregor. Hot Rod.New York: E. P. Dutton, 1950.

Finkelstein, Norman H. The Way Things Never Were: The Truth About the “Good Old Days.”New York: Atheneum, 1999.

Flink, James J. America Adopts the Automobile, 1895-1910. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1970.

------. The Automobile Age.Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1988.

Ford, Henry. My Life and Work. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1922.

------. Today and Tomorrow.Cambridge, MA: Productivity Press, 1988.

Foster, Kit. The Stanley Steamer: America’s Legendary Steam Car.Kingfield, ME: Stanley Museum, 2004.

French, Michael J. The United States Tire Industry. Boston: Twayne, 1991.

Frey, John W. ed. A History of the Petroleum Administration for War, 1941-1945. Washington D.C.: G.P.O., 1946.

Gartman, David. Auto Opium: A Social History of American AutomobileDesign.London: Routledge, 1994.

------. Auto Slavery: The Labor Process in the American Automobile Industry, 1897-1950.New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1986.

Georgano, Nick. Art of the American Automobile: The Greatest Stylists and Their Work.New York: Smithmark, 1995.

Gladding, Effie Price. Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway.New York: Brentano’s, 1915.

Goddard, Stephen B. Colonel Albert Pope and His American Dream Machines: The Life and Times of a Bicycle Tycoon Turned Automotive Pioneer.Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2000.

Granatelli, Anthony (Andy). They Call Me Mister 500.Chicago: Henry Regency, 1969.

Grandin, Greg. Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City.New York: Picador, 2010.

Greenleaf, William. Monopoly on Wheels: Henry Ford and the Selden Patent Suit.Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1961.

Gruskin, Paul. Rock’n Down the Highway: The Cars that Made Rock Roll.St. Paul, MN: Voyageur Press, 2006.

Gustin, Lawrence R. Billy Durant: Creator of General Motors.Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1973.

Gutfreud, Owen D. Twentieth-Century Sprawl: Highways and the Reshaping of the American Landscape.New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Hagstrom, Robert G. The NASCAR Way: The Business that Drives the Sport. New York: John Wiley, 1998.

Hair, William Ivy. The Kingfish and his Realm.Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1991.

Halberstam, David. The Reckoning.New York: William Morrow, 1986.

Hamper, Ben. Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line.New York: Warner Books, 1992.

Heat Moon, William Least. Blue Highways: A Journey into America.Boston: Little, Brown, 1982.

Heitmann, John A. and Rebecca Morales. Stealing Cars: Technology and Society from the Model T to Gran Torino. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.

Hendry, Maurice D. Cadillac, Standard of the World: The Complete History.Princeton, NJ: Automobile Quarterly Publications, 1977.

Herlihy, David V. Bicycle: The History. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004.

Hermanson, Dave. The Mobilgas Economy Run: A History of the Long Distance Fuel Efficiency Competition, 1936-1968.Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014.

Hokanson, Drake. The Lincoln Highway: Main Street Across America. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1988. 

Hounshell, David A. From The American System to Mass Production 1800-1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States.Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1984. 

Hyde, Charles K. Arsenal of Democracy: The American Automobile Industry in World War II. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2013. 

------. The Dodge Brothers: The Men, the Motor Cars, and the Legacy. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2005. 

------.. Riding the Roller Coaster: A History of the Chrysler Corporation.Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003.

Iacocca, Lee, with William Novak. Iacocca: An Autobiography. New York: Bantam Books, 1984.

Ikuta, Yasutoshi. American Automobile: Advertising from the Antique and Classic Eras. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1988.

_____________. Cruise-o-matic: Automobile Advertising of the 1950s.San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1988.

Ingrassia, Paul. Comeback: The Fall and Rise of the American Automobile Industry. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.

------.Engines of Change: A History of the American Dream in Fifteen Cars. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012.

Innes, C. D. Designing Modern America: Broadway to Main Street. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.  

Jackson, Robert B. Road Race Round the World: New York to Paris, 1908. New York: Scholastic, 1965.

Jacobs, Timothy. A History of General Motors.New York: Smithmark, 1992.

_____________. Lemons: The Worlds Worst Cars.Greenwich, CT: Dorsey, 1991.

James, Wanda. Driving From Japan: Japanese Cars in America. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2005.

Jardim, Anne. The First Henry Ford: A Study in Personality and Leadership. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1970.

Jeffreys, Steven. Management and the Managed. London: Cambridge Press, 1986.

Jerome, John. The Death of the Automobile: The Fatal Effect of the Golden Era, 1955-1970. New York: Norton, 1972.

Johnson, Ann. Hitting the Brakes: Engineering Design and the Production of Knowledge. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009.

Kanigel, Robert. The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency. New York: Viking, 1997.

Kaszynski, William. Route 66: Images of America’s Main Street. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2003.

Keats, John. The Insolent Chariots. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1959.

Keene, Carolyn. The Secret of the Old Clock.New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1930.  

Kerouac, Jack. On the Road.New York: Viking, 2007.

Keyser, Michael. French Kiss With Death: Steve McQueen and the Making of Lemans: The man—the Race—the Cars—the Movie. Cambridge, MA: Robert Bentley, 1999.

Kinsey, Alfred, et al. Sexual Behavior in the Human Female.Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company, 1953.

Kirby, Richard Shelton. Engineering in History.New York: McGraw-Hill, 1956.

Kirsch, David. The Electric Vehicle and the Burden of History.New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2000.

Klier, Thomas and James Rubenstein.Who Really Made Your Car? Restructuring and Geographic Change in the Auto Industry. Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute, 2008.

Koistinen, Paul A. C. Arsenal of World War II: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1940-1945.Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1994.

Kraus, Henry. Heroes of Unwritten Story: The UAW 1934-1939. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1993.

Laban, Brian. Cars: The Early Years. Köln: Könemann, 2000.

Lacey, Robert. Ford, the Men and the Machine.New York: Little, Brown, 1986.  

Lackey, James H. The Jordan Automobile: A History. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2005.

Ladd, Brian. Autophobia: Love and Hate in the Automobile Age. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.

Landis, Carole. Four Jills in a Jeep. New York: Random House, 1944.

Lane, Rose Wilder. Travels with Zenobia: Paris to Albania by Model T Ford. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1983.

Langworth, Richard M., and Jan P. Norbye. The Complete History of Chrysler Corporation, 1924-1985.New York: Beekman House, 1985.

------.., and ------.. The Complete History of General Motors, 1908‑1986.Skokie, IL: Publications International, 1986.

Laux, James. In First Gear: The French Automobile Industry.Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1976.

Lavine, Sigmund A. Kettering: Master Inventor.New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1960.

Lears, T. J. Jackson. Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America. New York: Basic Books, 1994.

Leavitt, Helen. Superhighway—Superhoax.New York: Ballantine, 1970.

Le Grand, Henderson.Augustus Drives a Jeep.Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1946.

Lehto, Steve, and Jay Leno. Preston Tucker and his Battle to Build the Car of Tomorrow. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2016.

Leland, Ottilie M., with Minnie Dubbs Millbrook. Master of Precision: Henry M. Leland.Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1996.

Leslie, Stewart W. Boss Kettering.New York: Columbia University Press, 1983.

Lesseig, Corey T. Automobility: Social Changes in the American South 1909-1939.New York and London: Routledge, 2001.

Levine, Leo. Ford: The Dust and the Glory: A Racing History. 2 vols. Warrendale, PA: SAE, 2001.

Levy, Lester S. Give Me Yesterday: American History in Song, 1890-1920.Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1975.

Lewis, David Lanier. The Public Image of Henry Ford: An American Folk Hero and His Company.Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1987.

Lewis, Tom. Divided Highways: Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life.New York: Viking, 1997.

Lewis, W. David. Eddie Rickenbacker: An American Hero in the Twentieth Century.Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.

Lincoln, Natalie Sumner. The Blue Car Mystery. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1926.

Lincoln Highway Association. A Picture of Progress on the Lincoln Way.Detroit, 1920.  

Livesay, Harold. American Made.Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1977.

Lucsko, David N. The Business of Speed: The Hot Rod Industry in American, 1915-1990. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.

------. Junkyards, Gearheads, and Rust: Salvaging the Automotive Past. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. 

Ludwigsen, Karl. Battle for the Beetle.Cambridge, MA: Bentley, 2000.

Lutz, Robert A. Guts: The Seven Laws of Business that Made Chrysler the World’s Hottest Car Company.New York: John Wiley, 1998.

Lynd, Robert S., and Helen Merrell Lynd. Middletown in Transition: A Study in Cultural Conflicts.New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1937. 

Lyons, Dan. Cars of the Fantastic ‘50s.Iola, WI: KP Books, 2005.

Maugeri, Leonardo. The Age of Oil: The Mythology, History, and the Future of the World’s Most Controversial Resource. Westport, CT: Prager, 2006.

Madsen, Axel. The Deal Maker: How William C. Durant Made General Motors.New York: Wiley, 1999.

Mantle, Jonathan. Car Wars: Fifty Years of Greed, Treachery, and Skulduggery in the Global Marketplace. New York: Arcade, 1995.

March, Peter, and Peter Collett. Driving Passion: The Psychology of the Car. Boston and London: Faber and Faber, 1987.

Marling, Karal Ann. As Seen on TV: The Visual Culture of Everyday Life in the 1950s. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994.

Marquis, Samuel S. Henry Ford: An Interpretation. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1923.

Massey, Beatirice Larned. It Might Have Been Worse: A Motor Trip from Coast to Coast. San Francisco: Harr Wagner, 1920.

Maxim, Hiram Percy. Horseless Carriage Days. New York: Dover, 1962.

May, George W. Charles E. Duryea Automaker. Chillicothe, IL: River Beach Publishing, 1996.

McCahill, Tom. The Modern Sports Car. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1954.

McCallum, Iain. Blood Brothers: Hiram and Hudson Maxim; Pioneers of Modern Warfare. London: Chatham, 1999.

McCalley, Bruce W. Model T Ford: The Car that Changed the World.Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 1994.

McKeon, Elizabeth, and Linda Everett. Cinema Under the Stars: America’s Love Affair with the Drive-In Movie Theater. Nashville, TN: Cumberland House, 1998.

McNichol, Dan. The Roads that Built America: The Incredible Story of the U.S. Interstate System. New York: Sterling, 2006.

McShane, Clay. Down the Asphalt Path: The Automobile and the American City. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.

Madden, W. C. Haynes-Apperson and America’s First Practical Automobile: A History. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2003.

Marcantonio, Alfred, David Abbot, and John O’Driscoll. Is the Bug Dead? The Great Beetle Ad Campaign.New York: Stewart, 1983.

Medley, Tom. Tex Smith’s Hot Rod History. Osceloa, WI: Motorbooks International, 1990.

Meier, August. Black Detroit. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.

Miller, Ray. Chevrolet: The Coming of Age, 1911-1942. Oceanside, CA: Evergreen Press, 1976.

Mills, Katie. The Road Story and the Rebel: Moving through Film, Fiction and Television. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2006.

Milliken, William F. and Douglas L. Milliken, Chassis Design Principles and Analysis: Based on previously unpublished technical notes by Maurice Olley. Warrendale, PA: SAE, 2002.

Mom, Gijs. Atlantic Automobilism: Emergence and Persistence of the Car, 1895-1940. New York: Berghahn, 2015.

------.. The Electric Vehicle: Technology and Expectations in the Automobile Age. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.  

Monkkonen, Eric H. America Becomes Urban: the Development of U.S. Cities and Towns 1780-1980. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1988.

Moorehouse, H. F. Driving Ambitions: An Analysis of the American Hot Rod Enthusiasm. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1991.  

Morales, Rebecca. Flexible Production: Restructuring the International Automobile Industry. Cambridge, MA: Polity Press, 1994.

Moses, Sam. Fast Guys, Rich Guys and Idiots: A Racing Odyssey on the Border of Obsession. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2007.   

Mueller, Mike. The American Pickup Truck. Osceola, WI: MBI, 1999.

Muir, John, and Tosh Gregg. How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive: A Manual of Step by Step Procedures for the Compleat Idiot.Santa Fe, NM: John Muir Publications, 16th ed., 1995.

Nader, Ralph. Unsafe At Any Speed. New York: Grossman, 1965.

Nauen, Elinor. Ladies, Start Your Engines: Women Writers on Cars and the Road. Boston: Faber and Faber, 1996.

Nelson, Kevin. Wheels of Change: From Zero to 600 M.P.H. Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, 2009.  

Nelson, Walter Henry.Small Wonder: The Amazing Story of the Volkswagen. Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1967.

Nevins, Allan. Ford. 3 vols. New York: Scribner, 1954-1963.

Niemann, Harry. Béla Barényi: Pioneer of Passive Safety at Mercedes-Benz. 2^ndEdition. Stuttgart: Mercedes-Benz, 2006.

Norton, Peter D. Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City.Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008.  

Nye, David E. Consuming Power: A Social History of American Energies.Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998.

O’Barr, William M. Culture and the Ad: Exploring Otherness in the World of Advertising.Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994.

O’Connell, Sean.The Car and British Society: Class, Gender and Motoring 1896-1939.Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998. 

O’Neill, William L. American High: the Years of Confidence, 1945-1960. New York: Free Press, 1986. 

O’Toole, Jack. Forming the Future: Lessons from the Saturn Corporation.Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1996.

Olsen, W. Scott. At Speed: Traveling the Long Road between Two Points. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2006.

Olson, Sidney. Young Henry Ford: A Picture History of the First Forty Years. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1963.

Page, Victor W. Prevention of Automobile Accidents. New York: Henley, 1932.

Partridge, Bellamy. Fill’er Up! The Story of Fifty years of Motoring.New York: McGraw-Hill, 1952.

Patton, Phil.Bug: The Strange Mutations of the World’s Most Famous Automobile.New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002.  

------. Open Road: A Celebration of the American Highway.New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986.

Pelfrey, William. Billy, Alfred, and General Motors: The Story of Two Unique Men, a Legendary Company, and a Remarkable Time.New York: AMACOM American Management Association, 2006.

Peterson, Joyce Shaw. American Automobile Workers, 1900-1933. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1987.

Post, Dan. Cord: Without Tribute to Tradition.Arcadia, CA: Post-Era Books, 1974.

Post, Robert C. High Performance: The Culture and Technology of Drag Racing.Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 2001.  

Preston, Howard Lawrence. Dirt Roads to Dixie: Accessibility and Modernization in the South, 1885-1935.Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1979.

Rae, John B. The American Automobile. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965.

------. The American Automobile Industry.Boston: G. K. Hall, 1984.

------, ed. Henry Ford.Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1969.

------. The Road and the Car in American Life.Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1971.

Ralston, Marc. Pierce-Arrow.San Diego: A. S. Barnes, 1980.  

Rattner, Steven. Overhaul: An Insider’s Account of the Obama Administration’s Emergency Rescue of the Auto Industry.Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.

Rifkin, Herbert R. The Jeep: Its Development, and Procurement Under the Quartermaster Corps, 1940-1942. Washington D.C.: Quartermaster Corp, 1943.

Roberts, Peter.Any Color So Long as its’ Black...the First Fifty Years of Automobile Advertising.Newton Abbott: David & Charles, 1976.

Rothschild, Emma. Paradise Lost: The Decline of the Auto-industrial Age.New York: Random House, 1973.

Rubenstein, James M. The Changing U.S. Auto Industry: A Geographical Analysis. New York: Routledge, 2002.

------.. Making and Selling Cars: Innovation and Change in the U.S. Auto Industry. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

Saal,Thomas F. Famous But Forgotten: the Story of Alexander Winton, Automotive Pioneer and Industrialist.Twinsburg, OH: Golias Publishing, 1997.

Sachs, Wolfgang.For Love of the Automobile: Looking Back into the History of Our Desires.Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1992.

Scharff, Virginia. Taking the Wheel: Women and the Coming of the Motor Age.Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1992.

Schilperoord, Paul. The Extraordinary Life of Josef Ganz: The Jewish Engineer Behind Hitler’s Volkswagen.New York: RVP Publishers, 2012.

Schneider, Kenneth. Autokind vs. Mankind: An Analysis of Tyranny, a Proposal for Rebellion, a Plan for Reconstruction.New York: Schocken Books, 1972.

Sedgwick, Michael. Early Cars.London: Octopus Books, 1962.

Seely, Bruce E. Building the American Highway System: Engineers as Policy Makers.Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987.

Seiler, Cotten. Republic of Drivers: A Cultural of History of Automobility in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.

Setright, L. J. K. Drive On! A Social History of the Motor Car.London: Granta Books, 2003.

Sherman, Joe. In the Rings of Saturn.New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Sinclair, Upton. The Flivver King.Emmaus, PA: Rodale Press, 1937.

Sloan, Alfred P. Adventures of a White Collar-Man.New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1941.

------. My Years With General Motors. Garden City, NJ: Doubleday & Company, 1964. 

Smith, George David. Wisdom from the Robber Barons: Enduring Business Lessons from Rockefeller, Morgan, and the First Industrialists.Cambridge, MA: Perseus, 2000.

Sorenson, Charles E. My Forty Years with Ford. New York: Norton, 1956.  

Stanford, Don. The Red Car. Cutchogue, NY: Buccaneer Books, 1954.

Steacy, Ken. Brightwork: Classic American Car Ornamentation. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1999.

Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. New York: Viking, 1939.

Steinwedel, Louis William, and J. Herbert Newport. The Duesenberg. New York: Norton, 1982.

Swope, Mary, and Walter H. Kerr, eds. American Classic: Car Poems for Collectors. College Park, MD: SCOP Eight, 1986.

Tarkington, Booth. The Magnificent Ambersons. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, 1918.

Tedlow, Richard. New and Improved: The Story of Mass Marketing in America. New York: Basic Books, 1990.

Thompson, Mickey with Griffith Borgeson. Challenger. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall 1965.

Vargas, Zaragosa. Proletarians of the North: A History of Mexican Industrial Workers in Detroit and the Midwest, 1917-1933. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Vatter, Harold G. The U.S. Economy in the 1950s. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963.

Vlasic, Bill, and Bradley A. Stertz. Taken for a Ride: How Daimler-Benz Drove Off with Chrysler. New York: HarperCollins, 2000.   

Volti, Rudi. Cars & Culture: The Life Story of a Technology. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. 

Wallace, Max. The American Axis: Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and the Rise of the Third Reich.New York: St. Martins, 2003.

Wallis, Michael. Route 66: The Mother Road. New York: St. Martin’s 2001.

____________, and Michael S. Williamson. The Lincoln Highway: The Great American Road Trip. New York: Norton, 2007.

Walton, Mary. Car: A Drama of the American Workplace. New York: W. W. Norton, 1997.

Ward, James A. The Fall of the Packard Motor Car Company. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1995.  

Watkins, Julian L. The 100 Greatest Advertisements: Who Wrote Them and What They Did.New York: Dover Publications, 1959.

Watts, Steven. The People’s Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century. New York: Knopf, 2005.

Weibe, Robert. The Search for Order, 1877-1920.New York: Hall and Wang, 1967.

Wells, A. Wade. Hail to the Jeep.New York: Harper and Brothers, 1946.

Wells, Christopher W. Car Country: An Environmental History. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2012. 

White, Lawrence J. The Automobile Industry Since 1945. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971.

. The Regulation of Air Pollutant Emissions from Motor Vehicles.Washington: American Enterprise Institute, 1982.

Whitney, Albert. Man and the Motor Car. New York: National Bureau Of Casualty And Surety Underwriters, 1936[PJB1] .

Whyte, Adam Gowns. Electricity in Locomotion: An Account of its Mechanism, its Achievements, and its Prospects. Cambridge: University Press, 1911.

Wik, Reynold M. Henry Ford and Grass-Roots America.Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1972.

Wilkinson. Stephan. The Gold-Plated Porsche: How I Sank a Small Fortune into a Used Car, and other Misadventures.Guilford, CT: Lyons, 2004.

Williams, T. Harry. Huey Long. New York: Knopf, 1970.

Williamson, Harold F., et al. The American Petroleum Industry, 1899-1959: The Age of Energy. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1963.

Williamson, Judith. Decoding Advertisements: Ideology and Meaning in Advertising. London: Boyars, 1978.

Witzel, Michael Karl. Route 66 Remembered. Osceola, WI: Motorbooks, 1996.

Wixom, Charles W. A Pictorial History of Road Building. Washington, D.C.: American Road Builder’s Association, 1975.

Wolfe, Tom. The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby. New York: Vintage, 2005.

------. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968.

Wollen, Peter, and Joe Kerr, eds. Autopia: Cars and Culture. London: Reaktion, 2002.

Womack, James P., Daniel T. Jones, and Daniel Roos. The Machine that Changed the World.New York: Rawson Associates, 1990.

Wright, J. Patrick. On a Clear Day You Can See General Motors. Grosse Pointe, MI: Wright Enterprises, 1979.

Yates, Brock. The Critical Path: Inventing an Automobile and Reinventing a Corporation. Boston: Little, Brown, 1996.

Yergin, Daniel. The Prize. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991.

Young, Rosamond McPherson. Boss Ket: A Life of Charles F. Kettering. New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1961.

Zeder, Fred Morrell. Leadership: A Message to America.New York: Newcomen Society, 1947.

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Select Bibliography 1.0 on the History of the Automobile and American Life -- Journals

I am working on pulling together materials as I start cleaning my office.  This bibliography of journal articles is far from complete or definitive, but a work-in-progress and that is why I have designed it version 1.0. Updates will come and this post will be deleted as I continue my effort to consolidate files. I hope it proves of use to the student and researcher. 

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Journal Articles

Alkalay-Gut, Karen. “Sex and the Single Engine: E. E. Cummings’ Experiment in Metaphoric Equation.” Journal of Modern Literature20 (Winter 1996): 254-8.

Ames, Roy Clifton. “Cars in Song.” Special-Interest Autos(January-February 1977): 40-45.

Andrews, Robert F. “On Designing the ‘Step-down’ Hudson.”Automobile Quarterly9 (Summer 1971): 393-7.

Ariout, Jacqueline Fellague. “The Dearborn Independent, A Mirror of the 1920s.” Michigan History Magazine80 (1996): 41-7.

Armi, Clement Edson. “The Formation of the Torpedo Tourer.” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians29(December 1970): 339-346.

Arnold, Robert F. “Termination or Transformation? The ‘Terminator’ Films and Recent Changes in the U.S. Auto Industry.”Film Quarterly52 (Autumn 1998): 20-30.

Aronson, Sidney H. “The Sociology of the Bicycle.” Social Forces30 (March 1952): 305-12.

Artz, Nancy, Jeanne Munger, and Warren Purdy. “Gender Issues in Advertising Language.” Women and Language22 (Fall 1999): 20-6.

Barnhill, John H. “The Punitive Expedition Against Pancho Villa: The Forced Motorization of the American Army.”Military History of Texas and the Southwest14(): 135-45.

Barrett, Paul. “Public Policy and Private Choice: Mass Transit and the Automobile in Chicago between the Wars” Business History Review49 (Winter 1975): 473-497.

Behling, Laura L. “‘The Woman at the Wheel:’ Marketing Ideal Womanhood, 1915-1934.” Journal of American Culture20 (Fall 1997): 13-31.

Benton, Tim. “Dreams of Machines.” Journal of Design History3 (1990): 19-34.

Berkebile, Don H. “The 1893 Duryea Automobile in the Museum of History and Technology.” Project Getenberg e book. 

Bernstein, Barton J. “The Automobile Industry and the Coming of World War II.” The Southwestern Social Science Quarterly 47 (1966): 22-33.

Blaszczyk, Regina Lee. “DuPont and the Color Revolution.” Chemical Heritage(Fall 2007): 20-5.

Burnham, John C. “The Gasoline Tax and the Automobile Revolution.” Mississippi Valley Historical Review48 (December 1961): 435-59.

Busby, Linda J., and Greg Leichty. “Feminism and Advertising in Traditional and Non-Traditional Women’s Magazines.” Journalism Quarterly70 (Summer 1993): 247-64.

Carr, Lowell Julliard. “How the Devil –Wagon Came to Dexter: A Study of Diffusional Change in an American Community.” Social Forces11 (October 1932): 64-70.

Casey, Robert. “The Vanderbilt Cup, 1908.” Technology and Culture40 (1999): 358-62.

Chesterton, G. K. “The Hollow Horn.” G.K.’s Weekly24 (October 1, 1936): 57.

Clarke, Sally. “Closing the Deal: GM’s Marketing Dilemma and its Franchised Dealers, 1921-41.” Business History(Great Britain) 45 (January 2003): 60-79.

Clarke, Sally. “Managing Design: The Art and Colour Section at General Motors, 1927-1941.” Journal of Design History12 (1999): 65-79.

Clarke, Sally H. Unmanageable Risks: MacPherson v. Buick and the Emergence of a Mass Consumer Market.” Law and History Review23(2005). http:///www.historycooperative.org.

Cohen, Yves. “The Modernization of Production in the French Automobile Industry between the Wars: A Photographic Essay.” The Business History Review 65(Winter 1991): 754-80.

Cooper, Gail. “Frederick Winslow Taylor and Scientific Management.” In Technology in America, edited by Carroll W. Pursell, Jr., 163-176. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.[PJB1] [PJB2] 

Cubitt, Sean. “‘Maybellene’: Meaning and Listening Subject.” Popular Music4 (1984): 207‑24.

Donnelly, Jim. “Franklin August Seiberling. Hemmings Classic Car (August 2005): 82.

Duggan, Edward P. “Markets, and Labor: The Carriage and Wagon Industry in Late-Nineteenth-Century Cincinnati,” The Business History Review51(autumn 1977): 308-325.

Edmondson, Amy. “Who Was Buckminster Fuller Anyway?” American History of Invention & Technology3 (1988): 18-25.  

Edsforth, Ronald, and Robert Asher. “The Speedup: The Focal Point of Worker’s Grievances, 1919-1941.” In Autowork, edited by Robert Asher and Ronald Edsforth, 65-98.Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1995. [PJB3] 

Fine, Sidney. “The Origins of the United Automobile Workers, 1933-1935.” The Journal of Economic History 18 (September 1958): 249-82.

Flink, James J. “The Olympian Age of the Automobile.” American Heritage of Invention & Technology7 (Winter 1992): 54-63.

------. “The Path of Least Resistance.” American Heritage of Invention & Technology5 (Fall 1989): 34-44.

------. “Three Stages of American Automobile Consciousness.” American Quarterly24 (October 1972): 451-73.

Follis, Jay. “The Making of the Mustang.” Michigan History Magazine98 (September/October 2014): 48-54.

Foster, Mark S. “The Model-T, the Hard Sell, and Los Angeles Urban Growth: The Decentralization of Los Angeles during the 1920s.” The Pacific Historical Review44(November 1975): 459-484.

French, Michael J. “Structure, Personality, and Business Strategy in the U.S. Tire Industry: The Seiberling Rubber Company, 1922-1964.” The Business History Review 67 (Summer 1993): 246-78.

Fuller, Wayne E. “Farmers, Postmen, and the Good Roads Movement.” In Indiana History: A Book of Readings, edited by Ralph D. Gray, 221-7.Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1994.[PJB4] [PJB5] 

Garamvári, Pál. “100 Years of the Carburetor.” Technikat Ort Enetio Szemle20 (1993): 11‑15.

Gartman, David. “Three Ages of the Automobile: The Cultural Logistics of the Car.” Theory, Culture & Society21 (2004): 169-195.

Gerber, Timothy. “Built for Speed: The Checkered Career of Race Car Designer Harry A. Miller.” Wisconsin Magazine of History85 (2002): 32-41.

Gianturco, Michael. “The Infinite Straightaway.”American Heritage of Invention & Technology8 (1992): 34-41.

Glancey, Jonathan. “Architecture and the Car.” Architectural Review(June 2005).

Graebner, William. “Ethyl in Manhattan: A Note on the Science and Politics of Leaded Gasoline.” New York History57 (1986): 436-43.

Grammage, Grady Jr., and Stephen L. Jones. “Orgasm in Chrome: The Rise and Fall of the Automobile Tailfin.” Journal of Popular Culture8 (1974): 132-47.

Grayson, Stan. “Crosley of Cincinnati.”Automobile Quarterly16 (First Quarter 1978): 6-20.

Greenberg, Harvey R., Carol J. Clover, et al. “The Many Faces of ‘Thelma and Louise.’” Film Quarterly45 (Winter 1991-1992): 20-31.

Griggers, Cathy. “Thelma and Louise and the Cultural Generation of the New Butch-Femme.” In Film Theory Goes to the Movies, edited by Jim Collins, Hillary Rader, and Ava Preacher Collins, 129-141. New York: Routledge, 1993.[PJB6] 

Hausman, Joshua K. “What was Bad for General Motors was Bad for America: The Automobile Industry and the 1937/38 Recession.” Journal of Economic History76 (June 2016): 427-477.

Hendry, Maurice D. “Henry M. Leland.” In Automobile Design: Twelve Great Designers and Their Work, 2nd ed., edited by Ronald Barker and Anthony Harding, 81-112. Warrendale, PA: Society of Automotive Engineers, 1992.[PJB7] 

------. “Pierce-Arrow: An American Aristocrat.” Automobile Quarterly 6 (Winter 1968): 240‑265.

------. “Thomas!” Automobile Quarterly 8 (Summer 1970). 418-30.

Herlihy, David V. “The Bicycle Story.” American Heritage Invention & Technology7 (Spring 1992): 48-59.

Hounshell, David. “Automation, Transfer machinery, and Mass Production in the U.S. Automobile Industry in the Post-World War II Era.” Enterprise & Society1(March 2000):100-38.

Howard, John Robert. “The Flowering of the Hippie Movement.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science382 (March 1969): 43-55.

Hugill, Peter J. “Good Roads and the Automobile in the United States, 1880-1929.” Geographical Review72 (July 1982): 327-349.

Hyde, Charles K. “Assembly Line Architecture: Albert Kahn and the Evolution of the U.S. Auto Factory, 1905-1940.” Society for Industrial Archeology22(1996): 5-24.

Hyde, Charles K. “The Dodge Brothers, the Automobile Industry, and Detroit Society in the Early Twentieth Century.” Michigan Historical Review22 (1996): 48-82.

Irwin, Howard. “The History of the Airflow Car.” Scientific American237 (August 1977): 98‑104.

Ivory, Chris and Audley Genus. “Symbolic Consumption, Signification, and the ‘Lockout’ of Electric Cars, 1885-1914.” Business History52 (December 2010): 1107-1122.

Jackson, Richard H., and Mark W. Jackson. “The Lincoln Highway: the First Transcontinental Highway and the American West.” Journal of the West42 (2003): 56-64.

Kan Als Ik. “Life on the Automobile Basis and Where it is Leading us.” The Craftsman (18 (September 1910): 711-12.

Katz, John F. “The Challenge from Steam.” Automobile Quarterly(First Quarter 1987): 15‑29.

Kimes, Beverly Rae. “The Dawn of Speed.” American Heritage38 (1987): 92-101.

------. “His Cord and His Empire.” Automobile Quarterly18 (Second Quarter 1980): 193-201.

------. “Plymouth: Walter Chrysler’s Trump Car.” Automobile Quarterly5 (Summer 1966): 74-85.

_____, “The Speedwell from Dayton.”Automobile Quarterly13(First Quarter 1975):22-35.

Kinney, Jeremy R. “Racing on Runways: The Strategic Air Command and Sports Car Racing in the 1950s.” Icon19 (2013): 193-215.

Klepper, Steven. “The Capabilities of New Firms and the Evolution of the US Automobile Industry.” Industrial and Corporate Change11 (2002): 645-666.

Konig, Wolfgang. “Adolf Hitler vs. Henry Ford: The Volkswagen, The Role of America as Model, and the Failure of a Nazi Consumer Society.” German Studies Review27 (2004): 249-68.

Kosher, Rudy. “Cars and Nations: Anglo-German Perspectives on Automobility Between the World Wars.” Theory, Culture, & Society21 (2004): 121-44.

Laird, Pamela Walker. “‘The Car Without a Single Weakness’: Early Automobile Advertising.” Technology and Culture(1996): 796-812.

Lamm, Michael. “Are Car Keys Obsolete?” American Heritage Invention & Technology23 (Summer 2008): 7.

Langworth, Richard M. “The Glorious Madness of Kaiser Frazer.” Automobile Quarterly9 (Spring 1971): 266-83.

------. “The True Tale of Uncle Tom McCahill.” Automobile Quarterly14 (First Quarter 1976): 68-73.

Lankton, Larry. “Autos to Armaments: Detroit Becomes the Arsenal of Democracy.” Michigan History75 (1991): 42-9.

Lee, Matthew T. “The Ford Pinto Case and the Development of Auto Safety Regulations, 1893-1978.” Business and Economic History27 (1998): 390-401.

Lewchuck, Wayne A. “Men and Monotony: Fraternalism as a Managerial Strategy at the Ford Motor Company.” Journal of Economic History4 (December 1993): 824.

Lewis, David. “Henry Ford and his Magic Beanstalk.” Michigan History Magazine97(1995): 10-17.

Lewis, David L. “‘Sex and the Automobile: From Rumble Seats to Rockin’ Vans.” In The Automobile and American Culture.Edited by Lewis and Laurence Goldstein, 123-133. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1983.[PJB8] 

Lezotte, Chris. “Born to Take to the Highway: Women, the Automobile, and Rock n’ Roll.” Journal of American Culture 38 (September 2013): 161-176.

Lichtenstein, Alex. “Good Roads and Chain Gangs in the Progressive South: ‘The Negro Convict as a Slave’.” Journal of Southern History59 (1993): 85-110.

Lichtenstein, Nelson. “Auto Worker Militancy and the Structure of Factory Life, 1937-1955.” Journal of American History67 (September 1980): 335-53.

Lipski, Patricia W. “The Introduction of “Automobile” into American English.” American Speech38 (October 1964): 176-87.

Loeb, Alan P. “Birth of the Kettering Doctrine: Fordism, Sloanism and the Discovery of Tetraethyl Lead.” Business and Economic History24 (1995): 72-87.

McCaffrey, Donald W. “The Evolution of the Chase in the Silent Screen Comedy.” Journal of the Society of Cinematologists4 (1964-5): 1-8.

McCarthy, Tom. “The Coming Wonder? Foresight and Early Concerns about the Automobile.”Environmental History6 (January 2001): 46-74.

MacDonald, Thomas H. “The History and Development of Road Building in the United States.” Transactions, American Society of Civil Engineers92 (1928): 1197.  

McIntyre, Stephen L. “The Failure of Fordism: Reform of the Automobile Repair Industry, 1913-1940.” Technology and Culture41 (2000): 269-99.

Marx, Thomas G. “The Development of the Franchise Distribution System in the U.S. Automobile Industry,” The Business History Review59 (Autumn 1985): 465-474.

Maxwell, James A. and Margaret N. Balcom. “Gasoline Rationing in the United States, I.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 60 (August 1946): 564.

Melder, F. Eugene. “The ‘Tin Lizzie’s’ Golden Anniversary.” American Quarterly12 (Winter 1960): 477-8.

Messer-Kruse, Timothy. “Speed Demons.” American History48 (October 2013): 50-57.  

 ------. “You Know Me: Barney Oldfield.” Timeline19 (2002): 2-19. 

Miller, Roger G. Wings and Wheels: the 1^stAero Squadron, Truck Transport, and the Punitive Expedition of 1916.” Air Power History42 (Winter 1995): 12-29.

Mom, Gijs. “Orchestrating Automobile Technology.” Technology and Culture 55 (April 2014): 299-325.

Moraglio, Massimo. “Per Una Storia Della Autostrade Italiane.” Storia Urbana26 (2002): 11‑25.

Morris, David Z. “Cars with Boom.” Technology and Culture55 (April 2014): 326-353.

Mueller, Mike. “Tucker: A Man and his Car.” American History Illustrated23 (1989): 36-41.

Nelson, Bruce. “Autoworkers, Electoral Politics, and the Convergence of Class and Race, Detroit, 1937-1945.” In Organized Labor and American Politics, 1894-1994. Edited by Kevin Boyle, 121-58. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1998[PJB9] . 

Newcomb, James. “Depression Auto Styling.” Winterthur Portfolio35 (Spring 2000): 81-100.

Norbye, Jan P. “Panhard et Levassor: Limelight to Twilight.” Automobile Quarterly6 (Fall 1967): 127-43.

Norton, Peter. “Four Paradigms.” Technology and Culture56 (April 2015): 319-334.

O’Brien, Anthony Patrick. The Importance of Adjusting Production to Sales in the Early Automobile Industry.” Explorations in Economic History34 (1997): 195-219.

Offer, Avner. “The American Automobile Frenzy of the 1950s.” In From Family Firms to Corporate Capitalism: Essays in Business and Industrial History In Honour of Peter Mathias. Edited by K. Bruland and P. K. O’Brien, 315-53.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.[PJB10] 

“On Lenoir’s Engine.” Scientific American(September 22 1860): 193. 

Ostrander, Stephen G. “A Car Worthy of its Name.” Michigan History Magazine76 (January/February 1992): 24-7.

Oestreicher, Richard. “The Rules of the Game: Class Politics in Twentieth-Century America.” In Organized Labor and American Politics, 1894-1994. Edited by Kevin Boyle, 19-50. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998.[PJB11] 

Owen, Percy. “Trade in American Motor Cars.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 127 (September 1926): 57-64.

Peterson, Joyce Shaw. “Autoworkers and their Work, 1900-1933.” Labor History22 (1981): 213-36.

------. “Black Automobile Workers in Detroit, 1900-1933.” Journal of Negro History 64 (Summer 1979): 177-90.

Peterson, Richard A. “Why 1955? Explaining the Advent of Rock Music.” Popular Music9 (January 1990): 97-116.

Pfau, Hugo. “Dr. Rumpler’s ‘Volkswagen.’” Cars & Parts20 (August 1977): 28-32.

Rae, John B. “The Electric Vehicle Company: A Monopoly That Missed.” The Business History Review29 (December 1955): 298-311.

Raff, Daniel M.G. “Making Cars and Making Money in the Interwar Automobile Industry: Economies of Scale and Scope and the Manufacturing behind Marketing” Business History Review65 (Winter 1991): 721-53.

Rieger, Bernard. “‘Fast Couples’: Technology, Gender, and Modernity in Britain and Germany During the Nineteen-Thirties.” Historical Research76 (August 2003): 364-88.

Rollins, William H. “Whose Landscape? Technology, Fascism, and Environmentalism on the National Socialist Autobahn.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers85 (September 1995): 494-520. 

Rosner, David, and Gerald Markowitz. “A ‘Gift of God?: the Public Health Controversy Over Leaded Gasoline During the 1920s.” American Journal of Public Health75 (1985): 344-52.

Ryerson, Martin A. “An Automobile Trip in France and Germany.” The World Today8 (April 1905):367-75.

Sandoval, Denise Michelle. “Cruising Through Low Rider Culture: Chicana/o Identity in the Marketing of Low Rider Magazine.” In Velvet Barrios: Popular Culture and Chicana/o Sexualities. Edited by Alicia Gasper de Alba, 179-98. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.[PJB12] 

Schwantes, Carlos A. “The West Adapts the Automobile: Technology, Unemployment, and the Jitney Phenomenon of 1914-1917.” The Western Historical Quarterly16 (July 1985): 307-326.

Schuler, Dustin. “Skinning Cars in the American West: Transforming Automobile Bodies into Relief Sculptures.” Leonardo17 (1984): 241-44.

Scott, Cord. “The Race of the Century.” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society96 (2003): 37-48.

Shand, James D. “The Reichsautobahn: Symbol for the Third Reich.” Journal of Contemporary History19 (1984): 189-200.

Smith, Julian. “Transports of Delight: The Image of the Automobile in Early Films.” Film & History11 (1981): 59-67.

Sonkin, Robert. “Bleeding Betty’s Brakes: Or, the Army Names a Jeep.” American Speech29 (December 1954): 257-62.

Stafford, Tom. “Scatter-Bolt.” Timeline 31 (October-December 2104): 22-37.

Stewart, Doug. “Hail to the Jeep! Could we have won without it?” Smithsonian23 (1992): 60‑73.

Swanson, Wesley. “The Cult of the Automobile.” Epoché 18 (1993): 96-112.

Todd, Jan. “Cars, Paint, and Chemicals: Industry Linkages and the Capture of Overseas Technology Between the Wars.” Australian Economic History Review38 (July 1998): 176-93.

Tuttle, William M. Jr. “The Birth of an Industry: The Synthetic Rubber “Mess” in World War II.” Technology and Culture 22 (January 1981): 35-67.

Ulmann, Alexander. Mercedes.New York: CarrollPress, 1948.

Wells, Christopher W. “The Changing Nature of Country Roads: Farmers, Reformers, and the Shifting Use of Rural Space, 1880-1905.” Agricultural History80 (2006): 143-66.

Wilkinson, Stephan. “Tanks, Hot Rods, and Salt.” Air & Space Smithsonian12 (1997): 60-3.

Wright, John L. “Croonin’ About Cruisin’.” In The Popular Culture Reader. Edited by Jack Nachbar, Deborah Weiser, and John L. Wright, 109-17. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green University Press, 1978.[PJB13] 

Wetmore, Jameson M. “Delegating to the Automobile.” Technology and Culture56 (April 2015): 440-463.

Yanik, Anthony J. “Harley Earl and the Birth of Modern Automotive Styling.” Chronicle: Quarterly Magazine of the Historical Society of Michigan21 (1985): 18-22.

Yates, Brock. “Duesenberg.” American Heritage45 (1994): 88-99.

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The Story of the Mercedes-Benz Model 124

I remember with great fondness being greeted by these taxis at virtually every major train station in Germany while traveling there between 1991 and 2015.

Unveiled in 1984, this model series was the first vehicle family from Mercedes-Benz. From 1993, it bore the name E-Class. Consistent lightweight design and optimised aerodynamics resulted in increased fuel economy and improved performance. Excellent driving safety was guaranteed by the innovative multi-link rear suspension. Mercedes-Benz also played a pioneering role in terms of reduced exhaust emissions: from autumn 1986, all petrol-engined models came as standard with exhaust gas emission control by a feedback-controlled three-way catalytic converter.

When the history of the 124 model series was beginning at Mercedes-Benz, the “Stroke/8” saloons of the W 114/115 model series were still in production: it was at the end of 1975 when the decision was made at the company for the successor of the 123 model series, in the upper executive segment, introduced to the market in January 1976. The development process was also accompanied by a change of generations in leading positions of what was then Daimler-Benz AG. Plus, there were also significantly stricter regulations for consumption and emissions, particularly in North America. Therefore, Mercedes-Benz developed new six-cylinder engines for the 124 model series along with a whole range of diesel engines, with four, five and six cylinders, with and without supercharging.

Relation to the new compact segment

In parallel with this, work was being done on the design of the new saloons. The goal was a lighter and significantly more aerodynamically optimised vehicle compared to its predecessor, along with greatly increased safety. There are parallels in the technology and design between the future 124 model series and the new W 201 compact segment, which was developed at the same time and would be launched on the market two years ahead of the upper executive segment. The first project descriptions and ten plasticine models of the W 124 were created in 1977 at a scale of 1:5 – a drag coefficient of Cd = 0.32 was aspired to in the specifications. In 1981 management decided on the final design with seven clay models in the original size.

In order to comprehensively test the new generation of vehicles, Mercedes-Benz began a series of crash tests in 1982 and undertook extensive road tests with around 60 vehicles in various climate zones. The W 124 was tested in the heat of Africa, on the high-speed course at Nardò in Italy, on the Sol y Nieve high road in Spain, 3392 metres above sea level, in Canada and Scandinavia (Arjeplog) as well as in the Alps, amongst other places.

From 26 November to 8 December 1984 the brand from Stuttgart finally introduced the new saloons to international journalists in the area of Seville. Vehicles from 200 D (53 kW / 72 hp) to 300 E (140 kW / 190 hp) were available for test drives. The vehicle concept with the most stable passenger compartment of its class, higher efficiency and impressive Cd figures of 0.29 to 0.30 depending on the engine and equipment was very well received by the experts. Amongst the types with a petrol engine, the 260 E and 300 E with the new six-cylinder M 103 engines garnered the most interest.

Further development until the E-Class

The saloons of the 124 model series launched onto the market in 1985 with three diesel versions (200 D, 250 D and 300 D), the Mercedes-Benz 200 with a 2-litre carburettor engine as well as four petrol engine types with petrol injection (200 E, 230 E, 260 E and 300 E). The 124 model series was further developed over the following years and the range of types was expanded.

And thus, from 1985, the brand from Stuttgart offered the automatically engaging 4MATIC four-wheel drive for the six-cylinder types. It was a part of the Mercedes-Benz driving dynamics concept, which also included automatic locking differential (ASD) and acceleration skid control (ASR). The previous types with prechamber diesel engines were supplemented in 1987 with an exhaust turbocharger in the 300 D Turbo. From September 1986 all vehicles with petrol engines included a controlled catalytic converter as standard.

The 124 model series is an exceptionally versatile generation of the upper executive segment of Mercedes-Benz: on the one hand, saloons and estates proved themselves as taxis, with the chassis being used for patient transport ambulances and hearses. On the other hand, the coupés and cabriolets set standards for sporty luxury in this vehicle segment. The 400 E (205 kW / 279 hp) and 500 E (240 kW / 326 hp) V8 versions as well as the E 60 AMG (280 kW / 381 hp) ultimately positioned the W 124 in the area of absolute high-performance vehicles of their time.

In June 1993 the 124 model series received the name E-Class as part of the new nomenclature. At the same time, the system of model designation was also changed. The 500 E became the E 500, for example, and the 200 D became the E 200 Diesel. In 1995 production of the saloons ended at the Sindelfingen plant and in 1996 the manufacture of parts kits was also phased out (completely knocked down, ckd). In eleven years 2,213,167 saloons were built, resulting in a total of 2,737,860 vehicles of the 124 model series – making it the most successful E-Class by Mercedes-Benz.