Motor Vehicles and Motors
Their Design, Construction and Working by Steam, Oil and Electricity
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.