Roy D. Chapin
eBook - ePub

Roy D. Chapin

The Man Behind the Hudson Motor Car Company

  1. 360 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Roy D. Chapin

The Man Behind the Hudson Motor Car Company

About this book

Now back in print, this is the only biography devoted to the life and career of Roy D. Chapin—one of the foremost figures in the history of Detroit's independent automotive industry.

"John Cuthbert Long's Roy D. Chapin is a thorough and detailed biography of a remarkable, but little-known Detroit automobile industry pioneer. Historians should include Roy Dikeman Chapin (February 23, 1880–February 16, 1936) in any listing of significant American auto industry pioneers, along with the Duryea brothers, Ransom E. Olds, Henry Leland, Henry Ford, William C. Durant, and the Dodge brothers. Outside the cloister of automotive historians, Roy Chapin is an unknown. This is in part because no company or car bore his name. Unlike many contemporary auto pioneers, Roy Chapin was a modest man who did not promote himself. Even Long's superb biography of Chapin is not well-known because it was privately printed in 1945 with a small press run. In reprinting this volume, Wayne State University Press is making an important contribution to automotive history."
—From the introduction by Charles K. Hyde, Department of History, Wayne State University

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Foreword
  9. Introduction
  10. Preface to the 1945 Edition
  11. I. Blazing the Trails of Tomorrow
  12. II. A Grass-Roots Boyhood
  13. III. University Days
  14. IV. Detroit-to-New York Pioneer Tour
  15. V. Revolt at Oldsmobile
  16. VI. Launching His First Company
  17. VII. Out of Debt and on Their Way
  18. VIII. Chalmers-Detroit, and Beginnings of Hudson
  19. IX. Forecasting Future Trends
  20. X. On Their Own at Last
  21. XI. A Millionaire at Thirty
  22. XII. Wednesday in Georgia
  23. XIII. Hudson's Growing Pains
  24. XIV. With Pershing on the Border
  25. XV. Pioneer in Motor Transport
  26. XVI. Running America's Road Traffic
  27. XVII. Wartime Washington
  28. XVIII. Birth of the Essex
  29. XIX. America Welcomes the Closed Car
  30. XX. Financial Climax
  31. XXI. New Homes for Old
  32. XXII. Leader of the Automobile Industry
  33. XXIII. End of an Era
  34. XXIV. Secretary of Commerce
  35. XXV. Again at the Hudson Wheel
  36. XXVI. Building for Tomorrow
  37. Index