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Storied independent automakers : Nash, Hudson, and American Motors
Title:
Storied independent automakers : Nash, Hudson, and American Motors
Author:
Hyde, Charles K., 1945-
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Detroit [Mich.] : Wayne State University Press, [2009]

©2009
Physical Description:
xvii, 307 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language:
English
Contents:
The Thomas B. Jeffery Company, 1902-16, and Its bicycle heritage -- From indentured servant to president of General Motors: Charles W Nash's Michigan years -- Nash Motors, 1916-36, and Charles W. Nash in historical perspective -- The Nash-Kelvinator Corporation under George W. Mason, 1936-54 -- The founding of the Hudson Motor Car Company and the Roy D. Chapin Era, 1909-36 -- Hudson under A. E. Barit, 1936-54 -- George W. Romney and American Motors, 1954-62 -- American Motors in sickness and in health, 1962-78 -- American Motors, Renault, and Chrysler: the final decade, 1978-87 -- Nash, Hudson, and American Motors: a retrospective -- The Nash family in Genesee County, Michigan, 1870-1910.
ISBN:
9780814334461
Format :
Book