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

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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.

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Length40 hrs 28 mins

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Publish dateMar 4, 2025

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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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