The all-plastic car: the saga of the Marbon Chemicals CRV and AMT Piranha

There once was a time when very little plastic was being used in the manufacture of automobiles. Steel and pot metal was heavy, expensive, and made the interior of a car a dangerous place. This is the true story about a plastics company that tried to convince the big three automakers that plastic wa...

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Hauptverfasser: Whitlow, Nicholas K. (VerfasserIn), Winfield, Gene (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Springfield, Ill. Classic Reproductions Publishing Co. 2015
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Zusammenfassung:There once was a time when very little plastic was being used in the manufacture of automobiles. Steel and pot metal was heavy, expensive, and made the interior of a car a dangerous place. This is the true story about a plastics company that tried to convince the big three automakers that plastic was a viable material for their cars in more ways than they could think of. What better way to convince them than designing and building an all-plastic car. See the evolution of the use of plastics in the car industry as this vehicle moves from a design on paper to a running, driving machine that proved to an industry that there was a better way. Out of this effort came many new ideas and manufacturing techniques that are now common practice. It was a time of unbridled creativity and the sky was the limit. Today, we take all the composite and plastic pieces of our cars for granted, but there was a time when these items were only things of the imagination...Back cover
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:viii, 92 pages illustrations (some color) 29 cm
ISBN:9780996359801
099635980X

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