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Bibliographical references for books in English with titles beginning by E
Chapter 4: General works on motor vehicles, marques, companies, and automotive and transport industries, plus automotive accessories and components

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Bridges, John F., Early country motoring: cars and motorcycles in Suffolk 1896-1940 (Little Waldingfield: [author], 1995). xii, 164 p., illustrations (portraits), 26 cm, ISBN: 0950514810 (hc).
Douglas-Scott-Montagu, Edward John Barrington (1926- ) & George Nicolas Georgano, Early days on the road: an illustrated history, 1819-1941 (New York, NY: Universe Books, 1976). 220 p., illustrations (12 p.), 25 cm, index, ISBN: 0876632436.
OTHER AND/OR PRIOR EDITION(S): London: Michael Joseph, 1976, ISBN: 0718113101 (hc).
Card, Peter W., Early vehicle lighting (Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire: Shire Publications, 2004). 2nd revised ed. 48 p., illustrations (65, bw/c), 15 x 21 cm, ISBN: 0747805857 (sc).
OTHER AND/OR PRIOR EDITION(S): Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire: Shire Publications, 1987, [Shire album; 185].
Mancheski, Frederick J. & Joseph V. Scott, Echlin Manufacturing Company, its first fifty years (The) (New York, NY: Newcomen Society of the United States, 1976). [Newcomen publication; 1024]. 18 p., illustrations, 23 cm.
Lewchuk, Wayne A., Economics of technical change: a case study of the British motor vehicle industry, 1896-1932 (The) (Ph. D. thesis (economics and politics): University of Cambridge (Cambridge, Cambridgeshire), 1982).

Westbrook, Michael Hereward (1926- ), Electric car: development and future of battery, hybrid, and fuel-cell cars (The) (London + Warrendale, PA: Institution of Electrical Engineers + Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), 2001). [Power and energy; 38]. xvi, 198 p., illustrations, 24 cm, bibliogr. ref., index, ISBN: 0852960131 (hc).
NOTES ON CONTENTS: Partly historical.

De Waard, E. John & Aaron E. Klein, Electric cars (New York, NY: Doubleday Publishing, 1977). 103 p., illustrations, 25 cm, index, ISBN: 0385009623 + 038508143X.

Mom, Gijs P. A. (1949- ), Electric vehicle: technology and expectations in the automobile age (The) (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003). 464 p., 18 x 26 cm, bibliogr. ref., index, ISBN: 0801871387 (hc). Translated by Jenny Wormer, original Dutch/Flemish title, "Geschiedenis van de auto van morgen".
COMMENTS: Originally a Ph. D. thesis.
NOTES ON CONTENTS: History of electric automobiles and of the competition between that technology and the internal combustion engine. Private passenger cars and commercial vehicles are treated separately. Goes over four generations of electric vehicle designs from Europe and America. The author argues that at the beginning of motorization no technology (gas-powered or battery-powered) had a clear advantage over the other. He also gives reasons to believe that electric vehicles had many advantages but that the internal combustion engined vehicles won the battle because important cultural and technological "shortcomings" of the electric technology.

Georgano, George Nicolas, Electric vehicles (Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire: Shire Publications, 1999). [Shire album; 325]. 32 p., illustrations (50, bw), 15 x 21 cm, bibliogr. ref. pp. 31-32, ISBN: 0747803161 (sc).
NOTES ON CONTENTS: Covers from the first models up to 1999's latest models. Includes automobiles, trucks and buses.
Bacon, Roy Hunt, Electrics (London: Osprey, 1988). [Restoring motorcycles; 2]. 128 p., illustrations, 20 x 27 cm, index, ISBN: 0850457882.

Maynard, Micheline, End of Detroit: how the Big Three lost their grip on the American car market (The) (New York, NY: Currency Doubleday, 2003). 1st ed. 327 p., 25 cm, bibliogr. ref. p. 318, index, ISBN: 0385507690.
NOTES ON CONTENTS: Author argues that by focusing on high-profit trucks and SUVs during the 1990s, the Big Three missed an opportunity to win back the American car consumer. Includes material from interviews with industry leaders (including Fujio Cho (Toyota), Carlos Ghosn (Nissan), Dieter Zetsche (Chrysler), Helmut Panke (BMW), and Robert Lutz (GM)) as well as designers, engineers, test drivers, and owners.
Brady, Christopher & Andrew Lorenz, End of the road: BMW and Rover, a brand too far (London: Financial Times + Prentice-Hall, 2002). revised and updated ed. xiii, 232 p., illustrations (portraits), 20 cm, index, ISBN: 0273656759 (sc).
NOTES ON CONTENTS: History of the merger of BMW and Rover, from the purchase of Rover by BMW to the sale of the former by the latter. Covers such themes as "big business, family divisions, cultural misunderstanding, political wrangling and public outrage".
OTHER AND/OR PRIOR EDITION(S): London: Financial Times + Prentice Hall, 2001, ISBN: 0273653008.
Butterfield, Leslie, Enduring passion: the story of the Mercedes-Benz brand (New York, NY: John Wiley, 2005). 272 p., illustrations (225), 24 x 28 cm, ISBN: 047001802X (hc).
NOTES ON CONTENTS: Foreword by Giorgio Armani.
Cruikshank, Jeffrey L. & David B. Sicilia, Engine that could: 75 years of values driven change at Cummins Engine Company, 1919-94 (The) (Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1997). 589 p., illustrations (32 p., portraits), 26 cm, ISBN: 0875846130 (hc).
Harker, Ronald W., Engines were Rolls-Royce: an informal history of that famous company (The) (New York, NY: Macmillan, 1979). xix, 202 p., illustrations (16 p.), 25 cm, index, ISBN: 0025481908.

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