Author: Pat Ware
Publisher: Southwater
ISBN: 9781780191935
Category : Vehicles, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This fully illustrated reference book provides an authoritative overview of the fascinating history of these essential military vehicles. It begins with the first motorized cars, lorries and trucks that enabled a reduction in the amount of horse transport used, then covers specialized vehicles, including powerful atillery tractors, missile transporter-erector-launchers, tank transporters, bridging vehicles and amphibious vehicles. With its wealth of 200 archive and museum photographs, the book is a rich guide to a fascinating subject, suitable for enthusiasts, historians and modelmakers.
An Illustrated History of Military Vehicles
Author: Pat Ware
Publisher: Southwater
ISBN: 9781780191935
Category : Vehicles, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This fully illustrated reference book provides an authoritative overview of the fascinating history of these essential military vehicles. It begins with the first motorized cars, lorries and trucks that enabled a reduction in the amount of horse transport used, then covers specialized vehicles, including powerful atillery tractors, missile transporter-erector-launchers, tank transporters, bridging vehicles and amphibious vehicles. With its wealth of 200 archive and museum photographs, the book is a rich guide to a fascinating subject, suitable for enthusiasts, historians and modelmakers.
Publisher: Southwater
ISBN: 9781780191935
Category : Vehicles, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This fully illustrated reference book provides an authoritative overview of the fascinating history of these essential military vehicles. It begins with the first motorized cars, lorries and trucks that enabled a reduction in the amount of horse transport used, then covers specialized vehicles, including powerful atillery tractors, missile transporter-erector-launchers, tank transporters, bridging vehicles and amphibious vehicles. With its wealth of 200 archive and museum photographs, the book is a rich guide to a fascinating subject, suitable for enthusiasts, historians and modelmakers.
American Military Vehicles of World War I
Author: Albert Mroz
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786454768
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
In World War I the American motor vehicle industry was tested by the sudden appearance of vast transport challenges. The nation's immense manufacturing capabilities and abundant natural resources combined with increased standardization and mass production to enable the industry to meet the military's needs. Motor vehicles and aircraft were quickly cemented as the most influential military tools of the early twentieth century. This book both describes the development and use of a wide range of specialized motor vehicles during World War I and analyzes how their advent indelibly altered modern warfare and transportation.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786454768
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
In World War I the American motor vehicle industry was tested by the sudden appearance of vast transport challenges. The nation's immense manufacturing capabilities and abundant natural resources combined with increased standardization and mass production to enable the industry to meet the military's needs. Motor vehicles and aircraft were quickly cemented as the most influential military tools of the early twentieth century. This book both describes the development and use of a wide range of specialized motor vehicles during World War I and analyzes how their advent indelibly altered modern warfare and transportation.
The Kids' Guide to Military Vehicles
Author: Lisa M. Bolt Simons
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1429633700
Category : Airplanes, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
"Describes a wide range of military vehicles, including wheeled and tracked vehicles, ships, airplanes, and unmanned vehicles"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1429633700
Category : Airplanes, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
"Describes a wide range of military vehicles, including wheeled and tracked vehicles, ships, airplanes, and unmanned vehicles"--Provided by publisher.
Special Use Vehicles
Author: George W. Green
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786412457
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Beyond the traditional purposes of moving people, goods, raw materials, and mail from place to place lies a world of unconventional uses of motor vehicles. Rolling grocery stores, churches, classrooms and health clinics have taken traditionally stationary services directly to those who need them. Companies have built vehicles in the shapes of their products (the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile being just one famous example) from the early years of automobiles. This lively history gives a fascinating overview of the many special purposes vehicles have served. The unconventional uses of motor vehicles stretch one's imagination. The author here divides them into eight types based on their purposes and uses. Sales vehicles support a successful sales volume; advertising vehicles retain present customers and attract new ones; education and training vehicles provide skills updates for employees; charity vehicles are used to serve various populations of the needy, suffering, and distressed; religious vehicles promote a particular faith; functional vehicles perform an on-the-spot function normally done by a fixed-base facility; multimodal vehicles have the ability to traverse land, water, and air; and government vehicles provide a host of services to constituencies. Examples are provided for each type of vehicle and examples from other nations besides the United States are included as well.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786412457
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Beyond the traditional purposes of moving people, goods, raw materials, and mail from place to place lies a world of unconventional uses of motor vehicles. Rolling grocery stores, churches, classrooms and health clinics have taken traditionally stationary services directly to those who need them. Companies have built vehicles in the shapes of their products (the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile being just one famous example) from the early years of automobiles. This lively history gives a fascinating overview of the many special purposes vehicles have served. The unconventional uses of motor vehicles stretch one's imagination. The author here divides them into eight types based on their purposes and uses. Sales vehicles support a successful sales volume; advertising vehicles retain present customers and attract new ones; education and training vehicles provide skills updates for employees; charity vehicles are used to serve various populations of the needy, suffering, and distressed; religious vehicles promote a particular faith; functional vehicles perform an on-the-spot function normally done by a fixed-base facility; multimodal vehicles have the ability to traverse land, water, and air; and government vehicles provide a host of services to constituencies. Examples are provided for each type of vehicle and examples from other nations besides the United States are included as well.
German Military Vehicles of World War II
Author: Jean-Denis G.G. Lepage
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786462523
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
This volume presents a cross-section of the most common transport vehicles produced and used by the German army. Tanks plus auxiliary vehicles such as cars, motorcycles, vans, ambulances, trucks and tractors made it possible for the troops to keep moving. These lightly armored or unarmored vehicles--aka "soft skins"--operated behind the front lines, maintaining supply lines, connecting armies with their home bases, and ultimately determining the outcome of battle. Beginning with the development of military vehicles in the early 1930s, this volume discusses the ways in which this new technology influenced and, to some extent, facilitated Hitler's program of rearmament. Nomenclature, standard equipment, camouflage and the combat roles of the various vehicles are thoroughly examined. Individual vehicle types are arranged and discussed by the following classifications: cars and motorcycles; trucks and tractors; half-tracks and wheeled combat vehicles. Accompanied by well-researched, detailed line drawings, each section deals with a number of individual vehicles, describing their design, manufacture and specific use.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786462523
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
This volume presents a cross-section of the most common transport vehicles produced and used by the German army. Tanks plus auxiliary vehicles such as cars, motorcycles, vans, ambulances, trucks and tractors made it possible for the troops to keep moving. These lightly armored or unarmored vehicles--aka "soft skins"--operated behind the front lines, maintaining supply lines, connecting armies with their home bases, and ultimately determining the outcome of battle. Beginning with the development of military vehicles in the early 1930s, this volume discusses the ways in which this new technology influenced and, to some extent, facilitated Hitler's program of rearmament. Nomenclature, standard equipment, camouflage and the combat roles of the various vehicles are thoroughly examined. Individual vehicle types are arranged and discussed by the following classifications: cars and motorcycles; trucks and tractors; half-tracks and wheeled combat vehicles. Accompanied by well-researched, detailed line drawings, each section deals with a number of individual vehicles, describing their design, manufacture and specific use.
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Military Vehicles
Author: Ian V. Hogg
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780600331957
Category : Vehicles, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780600331957
Category : Vehicles, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
The Illustrated History of Military Vehicles
Author: Ian V. Hogg
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781861606938
Category : Vehicles, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781861606938
Category : Vehicles, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
The World's Greatest Tanks
Author: Michael E Haskew
Publisher: Amber Books Ltd
ISBN: 1782742646
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Tanks features 52 of the best armoured fighting vehicles from World War I to the present day. Each entry is examined over two spreads and includes a brief description of the tank's development and history, a colour profile artwork, photographs, key features and specifications tables.
Publisher: Amber Books Ltd
ISBN: 1782742646
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Tanks features 52 of the best armoured fighting vehicles from World War I to the present day. Each entry is examined over two spreads and includes a brief description of the tank's development and history, a colour profile artwork, photographs, key features and specifications tables.
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the World's Tanks and Fighting Vehicles
Author: Christopher F. Foss
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armored vehicles, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armored vehicles, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A Complete Directory of Military Vehicles
Author: Pat Ware
Publisher: Southwater Publishing
ISBN: 9781780190211
Category : Vehicles, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An illustrated A-Z directory of logistics and troop carriers, wreckers, tankers, radio trucks, ambulances, missile transporters, amphibious cars and other specialized army vehicles of the world.
Publisher: Southwater Publishing
ISBN: 9781780190211
Category : Vehicles, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An illustrated A-Z directory of logistics and troop carriers, wreckers, tankers, radio trucks, ambulances, missile transporters, amphibious cars and other specialized army vehicles of the world.