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- Roy D. Chapin: The Man Behind the Hudson Motor Car Company
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- 2004
- Published by: Wayne State University Press
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"John Cuthbert Long’s Roy D. Chapin is a thorough and detailed biography of a remarkable, but little-known Detroit automobile industry pioneer. Historians should include Roy Dikeman Chapin (February 23, 1880–February 16, 1936) in any listing of significant American auto industry pioneers, along with the Duryea brothers, Ransom E. Olds, Henry Leland, Henry Ford, William C. Durant, and the Dodge brothers. Outside the cloister of automotive historians, Roy Chapin is an unknown. This is in part because no company or car bore his name. Unlike many contemporary auto pioneers, Roy Chapin was a modest man who did not promote himself. Even Long’s superb biography of Chapin is not well-known because it was privately printed in 1945 with a small press run. In reprinting this volume, Wayne State University Press is making an important contribution to automotive history."
—From the introduction by Charles K. Hyde, Department of History, Wayne State University
Table of Contents
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- Title Page
- p. 3
- Dedication
- p. 5
- List of Illustrations
- pp. ix-xii
- Introduction
- pp. xv-xviii
- Preface to the 1945 Edition
- pp. xix-17
- II. A Grass-Roots Boyhood
- pp. 9-18
- III. University Days
- pp. 19-26
- IV. Detroit-to-New York Pioneer Tour
- pp. 27-34
- V. Revolt At Oldsmobile
- pp. 35-46
- VI. Launching his First Company
- pp. 47-58
- VII. Out of Debt and on their Way
- pp. 59-66
- IX. Forecasting Future Trends
- pp. 77-88
- X. On their Own at Last
- pp. 89-96
- XI. A Millionaire at Thirty
- pp. 97-116
- XII. Wednesday in Georgia
- pp. 117-126
- XIII. Hudson's Growing Pains
- pp. 127-138
- XIV. With Pershing On the Border
- pp. 139-144
- XV. Pioneer in Motor Transport
- pp. 145-154
- XVI. Running America's Road Traffic
- pp. 155-166
- XVII.Wartime Washington
- pp. 167-172
- XVIII. Birth of the Essex
- pp. 173-182
- XIX. America Welcomes the Closed Car
- pp. 183-190
- XX. Financial Climax
- pp. 191-198
- XXI. New Homes for Old
- pp. 199-204
- XXII. Leader of the Automobile Industry
- pp. 205-218
- XXIII. End of an Era
- pp. 219-228
- XXIV. Secretary of Commerce
- pp. 229-244
- XXV. Again at the Hudson Wheel
- pp. 245-254
- XXVI. Building for Tomorrow
- pp. 255-264
Additional Information
ISBN
9780814336045
Related ISBN(s)
9780814331842
MARC Record
OCLC
849944713
Pages
360
Launched on MUSE
2013-05-20
Language
English
Open Access
No