Turning Over a New Wheel -- 70 Years Ago
The February 1954 issue of MIT's Tech Engineering News featured one of my columns about new cars. This was the very beginning of my published writing -- influenced by the British! So...tally ho!
Engineers all over the world will admit that American cars are in a class by themselves when judged by engineering effort per pound, but this effort is often diverted into channels that lead far from the automobile itself. In Europe, where one man may be responsible for the design of an entire car, and where limited production allows facile and frequent…
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