The Motorist's Companion: 5 Classic Automobile Books
Early Driving, Maintenance, Manufacturing, and Motor Travel in the Progressive EraBy H. Clifford Brokaw, Charles A. Starr, Charles Andrew Coey, The automotive business magazine Motor, Ford Motor Company, Frank B. Scholl
Length40h 28m
About this audiobook
The Motorist's Companion: 5 Classic Automobile Books gathers writing from the formative culture of motoring, when the automobile was at once machine, commodity, professional field, and emblem of modern mobility. Its selections range across practical instruction, mechanical explanation, trade journalism, business commentary, and corporate literature, preserving the varied prose through which early motorists learned to understand and inhabit the road. Particularly compelling are the works that move between technical detail and larger reflections on the expanding automotive world, revealing how maintenance, sales, and driving etiquette became parts of a new social vocabulary. The contributors—including H. Clifford Brokaw, Charles A. Starr, Charles Andrew Coey, Frank B. Scholl, the magazine Motor, and Ford Motor Company—represent intersecting voices of expertise, industry, and public communication. Together they document the rise of automobile culture alongside the professionalization of automotive commerce and repair. Their perspectives align with the early twentieth-century faith in engineering, efficiency, consumer education, and mass production, while also showing that motoring depended on networks of readers, mechanics, manufacturers, and publishers. Recommended to historians of technology, transportation, business, and popular culture, this volume offers an unusually concentrated encounter with the many languages of the automobile age. Readers will find valuable instruction, historical insight, and a productive dialogue between technical knowledge and cultural change.
Audiobook details
GenreOther, Literary Classics
Length40 hrs 28 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Ford Manual for Owners and Operators of Ford Cars and Trucks
2Ford Manual for Owners and Operators of Ford Cars and Trucks (1919)
3Foreword
4The Gasoline System
5The Ford Lubricating System
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6Putnam's Automobile Handbook: The Care and Management of the Modern Motor-Car
7FOREWORD
8Putnam’s Automobile Handbook CHAPTER I WHAT TO DO UPON PURCHASING A CAR
9CHAPTER II SOME THINGS TO AVOID
10CHAPTER III WHAT AN AUTOMOBILE IS
11CHAPTER IV WHAT MAKES THE ENGINE GO
12CHAPTER V EQUIPMENT AND ACCESSORIES
13CHAPTER VI IF WELL “SLICKED” THE ENGINE RUNS
14CHAPTER VII WHERE LUBRICATION IS NEGLECTED
15CHAPTER VIII SOMETIMES THE CAR SMOKES
16CHAPTER IX THE CARBURETOR AND ITS FAILINGS
17CHAPTER X GETTING THE MOST OUT OF A GALLON OF GAS
18CHAPTER XI THINGS WHICH MAKE GAS BILLS HIGH
19CHAPTER XII CARE OF THE TIRES
20CHAPTER XIII SKIDDING MAY BE MINIMIZED
21CHAPTER XIV “CAN’T-SLIP HEELS” LESSEN SKIDDING
22CHAPTER XV AVOID NEWLY OILED ROADS
23CHAPTER XVI WATCH YOUR BRAKES
24CHAPTER XVII WHY THE AUTO STEERS EASILY
25CHAPTER XVIII THE ELUSIVE “JUICE”
26CHAPTER XIX PUTTING THE KICK IN THE SPARK
27CHAPTER XX WHAT’S THE TROUBLE WITH MY BATTERY?
28CHAPTER XXI WHY GEARS STRIP
29CHAPTER XXII THE GEAR-SHIFTING BUGABOO
30CHAPTER XXIII THE MUFFLER
31CHAPTER XXIV YOUR BEARINGS
32CHAPTER XXV DRIVING THE CAR
33CHAPTER XXVI WHERE EXTRA CAUTION IS NECESSARY
34CHAPTER XXVII AN AUTO FURNACE FOR WINTER
35CHAPTER XXVIII THE COOLING SYSTEM IN WINTER
36CHAPTER XXIX OVERHEATING THE ENGINE IN SUMMER
37CHAPTER XXX SOME OTHER HOT-WEATHER TIPS
38CHAPTER XXXI HOT-WEATHER TIRE EXPANSION
39CHAPTER XXXII GUARDING AGAINST FIRE
40CHAPTER XXXIII DON’T RUN AWAY FROM A FIRE
41CHAPTER XXXIV DEATH IN THE GASOLINE
42CHAPTER XXXV SHIFTING GEARS ON HILLS
43CHAPTER XXXVI KEEPING THE CAR SLEEK
44CHAPTER XXXVII SOME THINGS A TOURIST SHOULD KNOW
45CHAPTER XXXVIII LITTLE KNOCKS ARE HARDLY BOOSTS
46CHAPTER XXXIX SOME OTHER CAUSES OF KNOCKING
47CHAPTER XL CHASSIS KNOCKS
48CHAPTER XLI KEEPING DOWN THE AUTO UPKEEP
49CHAPTER XLII HUNTING TROUBLE
50CHAPTER XLIII MORE TROUBLE
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