Search
Type
Format
Sort
Location
Audience
search MeLCat Search MeLCat

Filter By Fiction/Non-fiction

Fiction Non-fiction

Filter By Subjects

Automobile industry and trade Automobile industry and trade United States History 20th century BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Business BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Automobile Industry Experimental automobiles Experimental automobiles United States History 20th century HISTORY / United States / 20th Century Tucker automobile Tucker, Preston 1903-1956 United States

Filter By Authors

Lehto, Steve

Filter By Series

Widescreen DVD collection

Filter By Genres

bibliography Biographical films. Biographical-Feature. Biographies Biographies. biography Drama Feature films-United States. Feature films. History.

Tucker : the man and his dream

Details

Summary: Tucker is an engineer and showman who has a vision of the car of the future. Against formidable odds he raises the money and builds a fleet of them, only to have his factory shut down by Detroit's Big Three auto manufacturers.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2000

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TUC

Preston Tucker and his battle to build the car of tomorrow

Lehto, Steve

Details

Summary: "In the wake of World War II, the U.S. automobile industry was fully unprepared to meet the growing demands of the public, for whom they had not made any cars for years. In stepped Preston Tucker, a salesman extraordinaire who announced the building of a revolutionary new car: the Tucker '48, the first car in almost a decade to be built fresh from the ground up. Tucker's car, which would...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2016

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 338.76 LEH

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TUCKER, PRESTON LEH

Back to Top