Motor Vehicles and Motors 2 Volume Set

Table of Contents

• Volume 1: Preface
• Introduction
• 1. Design, construction and working of early steam road vehicles
• 2. The intermediate period
• 3. Power and frictional losses
• 4. Road resistances
• 5. Resistance due to gravity and power required
• 6. Air and wind resistance
• 7. The modern period and modern motor
• 8. Recent high speed long distance petrol motor vehicles
• 9. Recent high speed long distance petrol motor vehicles (cont.)
• 10. Mors motor carriage and motor
• 11. The Gobron-Brillié motor carriage
• 12. The Cannstadt-Daimler motor vehicles
• 13. The Vallée, Delahaye, Crowden and other cars
• 14. Modern light petrol motor vehicles
• 15. Petrol motor cycles
• 16. Carburettors
• 17. Motor cars with petroleum motors
• 18. Cylinder cooling and water coolers
• 19. Some motor vehicle components
• 20. Electric ignition and ignition apparatus
• 21. Petrol motor vehicle performance and mechanical efficiency
• 22. Electric motor vehicles
• 23. The Electric Vehicle Company's electric cabs and broughams
• 24. Modern and recent steam vehicles
• 25. Some Serpollet steam vehicles
• 26. Some American light steam carriages
• 27. American steam vehicles
• 28. Heavy motor vehicles
• 29. The Liquid Fuel Engineering Company's 'Lifu' vehicles
• 30. Heavy steam vehicles
• 31. Heavy steam vehicles (cont.)
• 32. Heavy steam vehicles (cont.)
• 33. On brakes
• 34. Concerning vibration, balancing, and balanced motors
• 35. Pivoted steering axles
• 36. The popular and commercial uses and cost of working motor vehicles
• 37. The 1896 act and the Local Government Board regulations
• 38. Tyres
• 39. Miscellaneous
• Index. Volume 2: Introduction: development of the automobile industry
• 1. Light petrol motor vehicles
• 2. Light petrol motor vehicles (cont.)
• 3. The Wolseley, De Dion Bouton, and James and Browne petrol cars
• 4. The Benz, Benz-Parisfal and Decauville cars
• 5. The Mills-Damiler, and the Mercedes cars
• 6. The Panhard and Levassor cars and engines
• 7. The Brooke cars
• 8. The Mors cars
• 9. A design for a belt-driven car
• 10. The Richard-Braiser, Clement-Talbot, and De Dietrich cars
• 11. The Maudslay cars
• 12. The Daimler cars
• 13. The Humber cars
• 14. The Brush, and Wilson and Pilcher cars
• 15. The Velox and Marshall-Belsize cars
• 16. The Napier cars
• 17. Some recent light petrol cars
• 18. Some American petrol cars
• 19. Some American petrol cars (cont.)
• 20. Some American petrol cars (cont.)
• 21. Radiators and water-cooling requirements
• 22. Crankshafts and axles
• 23. Power, speed and tractive effort
• 24. Vibration and turning effort
• 25. Steam and petroleum engine lorries and wagons: the Thorneycroft and Mann vehicles
• 26. The Robertson, Nayler, Garrett, and Simpson and Bibbysteam wagons
• 27. The Coulthard, Yorkshire, Herschmann, and other heavy steam vehicles
• 28. The Milnes-Daimler and other heavy petrol motor vehicles
• 29. The White steam cars
• 30. The Clarkson and other steam cars
• 31. Engine dimensions, piston displacement, and mean pressure
• 32. Overturning and skidding
• 33. Carburettors and carburation
• 34. Electric motor vehicles
• 35. Petrol motor cycles
• 36. Petrol motor cycles (cont.)
• 37. Transmission efficiency
• 38. Some engines and miscellaneous parts
• 39. On cost of motor transport
• 40. Miscellaneous
• 41. The Tourist Trophy race and cars
• Index.
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