Self-propelled vehicles; a practical treatise on the theory, construction, operation, care and management of all forms of automobiles (1906)
Homans, James E. (James Edward), b. 1865 · New York, T. Audel & Company · leaf 33
erican passenger coach, did the day of real progress and com-fortable travel begin. In similar fashion, it may be safely as-serted, many of the greatest constructional problems of auto-mobiles are to be traced to the tradition of building motor car-riages as nearly like horse-drawn vehicles as… … Fig.19.—Early American Railroad Train (1834), showing passenger coaches, which are simply transformed road stages. structural problems are, however, real problems, and with bothrailway coaches and automobiles the adoption of traditionalmodels has been only the following of the best available…
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