Building Chris-Craft

Inside the Factories

Anthony S. Mollica, Christopher J. Smith (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

176 Seiten

2010
Voyageur Press (Verlag)
978-0-7603-3592-5 (ISBN)

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Building Chris-Craft examines the company's design and production heritage, looking at Chris-Craft's considerable accomplishments in the context of key competitors and industrial trends in general.

For more than half a century, Chris-Craft reigned supreme in the world of motorboating. This market dominance was due in no small part to the design and construction techniques employed in the companys studios and on its factory floors.

Building Chris-Craft examines the companys design and production heritage, looking at Chris-Crafts considerable accomplishments in the context of key competitors and industrial trends in general.

High-quality archival images take readers inside the factories, design studios, and lofts of Chris-Craft factories in Algonac, Holland; Cadillac, Michigan; Salisbury, Maryland; Chattanooga, Tennessee; and Caruthersville, Missouri.

Chris Smith is the grandson of Chris-Craft founder Christopher Columbus Smith. He resides in Holland, Michigan.Anthony Mollica is a noted wooden boat expert and writer, as well as a trustee of the Antique Boat Museum in Clayton, New York. The author of Gar Wood Boats: Classics of a Golden Era, Chris-Craft 1922--1972, The American Wooden Runabout, and Dodge Boats lives in Dewitt, New York. Chris Smith is the grandson of Chris-Craft founder Christopher Columbus Smith. He resides in Holland, Michigan.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	8.8.2010
Sprache	englisch
Maße	235 x 277 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Segeln / Tauchen / Wassersport
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	0-7603-3592-3 / 0760335923
ISBN-13	978-0-7603-3592-5 / 9780760335925
Zustand	Neuware