Name: The Motor Car: Machine, Industry, World
Author: Ketineni Ramarao

Cover of The Motor Car: Machine, Industry, World, a book by Ketineni Ramarao - Industries of India

The car remade the twentieth century and charged it a price. This book follows the motor car from craft production to the assembly line and the world industry - Ford, GM, Toyota, and the rise of Japan, Germany, Korea, China and India - then counts the costs: safety, pollution, congestion and oil politics, before turning to the electric ages, autonomy and the question of ownership itself.

106 pages · Published November 2026 · Free to read as a PDF

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The Motor Car - the book (PDF) 106 pages · 0.3 MB The Motor Car - source companion (PDF) 16 pages · 0.1 MB

Every reference number in the book resolves in the source companion: what each source is, how fully it was read, and its limits.

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