Illustrated dictionary of automobile body styles

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Accession number

08-415

Maker

Lennart Haajanen

Description

Includes bibliographical references. "Today's cars fit a fairly small number of body types - sedan, coupe, station wagon, SUV, hatchback, and a few others. Along the way a much greater number of earlier body types have fallen out of use and become historical curiosities. Who today can identify a charabane, a dos-a-dos, or even a phaeton?" "This heavily illustrated dictionary defines all distinct body types ever applied to automobiles anywhere, from the early days when many were closely derived from established types of horse-drawn vehicles ("cars" in their original sense). It explains subtype designations and distinctions between similar types, comments on when and where individual body types were popular, traces how terms have taken on different meanings in different countries or time periods, and clarifies the use and misuse of various terms and designations."--BOOK JACKET.

Media/Materials

Processed Material/Paper

Physical description

ix, 165 p. : illustrations ; 27 cm.

ISBN/ISSN

0786412763

Credit line

Lennart Haajanen. 2003. Illustrated dictionary of automobile body styles, 08-415. Walsh Memorial Library, The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).

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Book Dictionary Communication Artefacts Documentary Artefacts Other Documents

Production place

Jefferson North Carolina United States of America North America Americas

Subject: all levels

<C> Dictionaries Bodies Automobiles Design and construction Identification Models Pictorial works

Collection type

Published Titles Walsh Memorial Library

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