BMW: A HISTORY
Written by Halwart Schrader
Published by Osprey Publishing
in 1979
ISBN: 0850453453
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BMW: A HISTORY
Written by Halwart Schrader.
Stock no. 2115875
1st.
1979.
Hardback.
Large format.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
A definitive history of the BMW of special importance to collectors. A special chronological section of 146 illustrated pages contains a technical description and photographs of every Wartburg, Dixi and BMW automobile built from 1899 to the present. Large format. Blue cloth boards, silver title to spine. Colour and b/w photos. 392 pages. ISBN: 0850453453. Light bumping and wear along board edges. Spine a litlte cocked. A few marks to boards. Text block is browned with some foxing. Dustwrapper is price-cut with edge-creasing and a few nicks.
Front cover
Contents
- CHAPTER ONE Europe in the Twenties - France, England, Germany: Moving Towards the Age of Mass Production
- CHAPTER TWO The Story of the Bavarian Motor Works - Beginning with Aero Engines: The Story of a Munich Company's Changing Fortunes from 1916 to 1928
- CHAPTER THREE Eisenach's Historic Motor Industry From Wartburg to Dixi to Austin Seven
- CHAPTER FOUR A Tradition Begins - BMW Automobiles 1928-1945: From Tiny Austin to 3.5-Liter Luxury
- CHAPTER FIVE 1945: Only the Name BMW Remains - From Rubble to Reconstruction, BMW Takes Its Place in the Economic Miracle
- FAMILY TREE of the Bayerische Motoren Werke
- A BMW CHRONOLOGY
- The Wartburg 1899-1903
- The Dixi 1903-1928
- The BMW 1928-1979
- DIXI AND BMW COMMERCIAL VEHICLES From 6.7 Liters and Chain Drive to the Isetta Transport
- A HALF-CENTURY OF BMW MOTORCARS A Special Automobile Quarterly Color Portfolio
- THE COACHBUILT BMW fROM THE Dixi to Today, Fifty Years of Design
- DERIVATIVES OF A MARQUE Bristol, Frazer Nash, EMW, Glas and Some Homebuilt Hopefuls
- A RACING CHRONICLE BMW Motorsport and its Antecedents, 1899-1978
- BMW CARS: THE FIRST HALF-CENTURY
- ALL WARTBURG, DIXI AND BMW AUTOMOBILES, 1899-1979
- STRUCTURE OF THE DIRECTORATE AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE BAYERISCHE MOTOREN WERKE AG, 1928-1978
- ROSTER OF BMW CLUBS