Tycoons, Scorchers, and Outlaws
Tycoons, Scorchers, and Outlaws

Author: T. Messer-Kruse

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-11-29

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13: 1137322519

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Tycoons, Scorchers, and Outlaws charts how auto racing was shaped by class tensions between the millionaires who invented it, the public who resented their seizure of the public roads, and the working class drivers who viewed the sport as a vocation, not a leisured pursuit.

Taming the Automobile
Taming the Automobile

Author: Kerry Segrave

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2024-06-07

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1476652198

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The first decade of the auto industry in America featured politicians and bureaucrats at all political levels trying to come to terms with a new form of locomotion. Rules and regulations had to be drafted, implemented, and then enforced. Working against them was a small but wealthy and powerful group that fought against regulations, tried to weaken those they could not block, or sought to write the rules themselves. This book details how the auto industry was imposed on society from the top down, unlike many new innovations that go through society from the bottom up.