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Coachbuilding: The Hand-Crafted Car Body

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Coachbuilding: The Hand-Crafted Car Body - Wood, Jonathan
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This account examines the history of coachbuilding, beginning with the coachbuilders who for generations had built horse-drawn wooden carriages, and then explaining how they turned their craft to building the bodywork of the first motorised cars. Using photographs of the different stages of coachbuilding, the author describes the materials, equipment and key techniques involved. Today the profession of coachbuilding is almost a lost art, yet as the restoration of vintage cars seeks to keep the trade alive, this book ...

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Coachbuilding: The Hand-Crafted Car Body 2009, Shire Publications, New York

ISBN-13: 9780747806882

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