INTRODUCTION THE IDEA BEHIND this volume germinated in the late '60s as a proposal for a series of magazine articles@ each to be written by an expert on the particular subject; but how could one compress the character and achievements of a man like Ferdinand Porsche within such narrow confines? So I then approached Anthony Harding@ who had been responsible for the publication of many good books on motoring over the previous twenty years. Together@ we drew up a list of prospective subjects@ deliberately omitting some whose work had already been widely recorded while including others less well known but perhaps more colourful to deepen the perspective. It would have been presumptuous and contentious@ in any case@ to have picked out those whom we personally considered the greatest or most significant. Men like Adam Opel and Wilhelm Maybach of Germany@ Henry Ford and the Stanley brothers of the USA@ Herbert Austin@ W.O. Bentley and Georges Roesch of England@ Louis Renault and Ettore Bugatti of France@ Vincenzo Lancia of Italy and many more@ would certainly have qualified under this title. Our objective was to portray designers as people@ where possible giving as much emphasis to their backgrounds and characters as to their careers and creations. But in some cases any amount of research could produce little about the man himself??maybe because he was colourless or reserved as a personality and expressed himself lucidly only through his work@ or perhaps because the years had swallowed up his associates and friends and no one could be found to provide personal reminiscence or open up family records. This is a truly international collection@ including a British subject of Greco-Bavarian origins born in Turkey@ a Swiss whose cars were manufactured in Spain@ France and under license in Czechoslovakia@ an Austrian whose working life was spent mostly in Czechoslovakia@ and a Bohemian who became a Czech but whose product proliferated in Austria and Germany@ and for this new edition we have added an Italian@ Dante Giacosa@ whose creations have also been produced in factories far beyond the bounds of his own country@ including segments of the now disintegrated Eastern bloc.
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1992SAE R-115-1992 Automobile Design Twelve Great Designers and Their Work (Second Edition)