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Eastman, Joe W.

STYLING VS. SAFETY. The American Automobile Industry And The Development Of
Automobile Safety, 1900 -1966.

 

Pub: University Press of America: 1984, ISBN: 0-8191-3685-9, 290 pages.

   “The American public accepted the motor car as enthusiastically as its
early proponents, and the reason for the response is not difficult to
discover. The motorized passenger vehicle fitted perfectly into American
culture because it appeared to offer inexpensive, individualized
transportation to an individualistic, highly mobile people. The
responsibility for the construction and maintenance of highways and the
regulation, if any, of road vehicles had traditionally lain with the states,
but with the arrival of the motorcar there were calls for the duty to be
accepted by the federal government. The safety of the automobile as a means
of transportation soon became a significant question because the accident
rate for motor vehicles quickly exceeded those of the transit systems it
replaced. Automobile manufacturers, echoing the reasoning of the highway
safety professionals, took the position that it was not normal for a motor
vehicle to be involved in an accident, and that, therefore, they were under
no obligation to design for that circumstance. However, as automobile
accidents increased in the 1930’s manufacturers expanded their support of
and the influence in the highway safety movement, with its emphasis on
driver responsibility.

  However, beginning in mid-decade, a small but increasing number of
critics—particularly physicians—began to stress the necessity of automobile
design to minimize injuries in what they argued were a large number of
inevitable accidents produced by reliance on motor vehicles as a principle
means of transportation. A number of design changes for crash protection
were adopted and promoted as minor sales themes by some manufacturers in the
late 1930’s but they were abandoned in the restyled models produced after
the war. This lack of responsible action by the largest and most profitable
industry in the world in the face of the most serious public health problem
facing the country was strikingly revealed in a series of Congressional
Hearings held in the mid-1960s. After a century of the laissez-faire, a
federal agency was given the responsibility for the safe design of American
automobiles, and a new era in the history of the automobile industry was
begun.”   FINE- HARDCOVER, ex-library withdrawn
$500.00

 

 

Mandell, Lewis.

THE CREDIT CARD INDUSTRY. A History.

 

Pub: Twayne: 1990, first printing, ISBN; 0-8057-9810-2, 176 pages.  “This
book traces the entrepreneurial schemes and breakthroughs, the changing
technology, the evolving structure, and the competitive and regulatory
dimensions of the credit card’s proliferation. The study examines the
history of how the credit card has been specialized for different uses,
including banking, retail and gasoline purchases, travel, and entertainment.
In a clear and comprehensive analysis of the development of the industry,
the author illuminates the factors that have led to success or failure for
its members.”  FINE HARDCOVER, FINE DUST JACKET
$500.00 

 

 

 

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