Small Independents

Pioneers of the U.S. Automobile Industry uses four separate volumes to explore the essential components that helped build the American automobile industry - the people, the companies and the designs. This volume uses more than 450 photos to help weave the story of the risk-takers who helped shape the automotive industry from the very beginning.Pioneers and companies covered in this edition include: Charles and Frank Duryea; Studebaker; The Pratt Family and the Elcar Motor Care Company; Joseph Moon; Russell Gardner; Louis Clarke; George Pierce and Charles Clifton; Packard/Joy/Macauley and the Packard Motor Car Company; Edwin Thomas; Ransom Olds; Peerless; Fred and August Duesenberg; Kissel Brothers; Hupp / Drake / Hastings / Young and the Hupp Motor Car Corporation; Walter FlandersChapin / Coffin / Bezner / Jackson / Hudson / McAneeny and The Hudson Motor Car Company; Harry Stutz; Harry Ford; Graham Brothers; Charles Nash