Description
Preface: Saving Tim Barton’s Greatest Work ; Chapter 1: Building the Heinkle Microcar – • From Big Bombers to Bubble Cars • The Bubble Bursts • Building Bubbles • Bubble Brethren • Bubble, Bubble, Toil, and Trouble • American Bubble Tops •; Chapter 2: The Josie; Chapter 3: Micro Coachbuilding – Tools and Machinery – • Hobby Kings • Little Things Mean A Lot • The World’s Most Popular Child’s Car, The Bugatti Type 52 ‘Baby’ • Chapter 4: The Secret Wood & Metal Wars – • Introduction • Enter the All Steel Bodies • A Startling Notion • Bean Counters and Oak Doughnuts • Row, Row, Row Your Egg Shell • The Dodge Brothers and Their Budd • Put a Lid on It! • The Wood War Erupts • All-Steel to All-Unit Construction • The Forgotten Heroes of Stamping •; Chapter 5: Coordinated Measurements – • When in Rome • Sailing Lessons • Buehrig Builds a Bridge • Striking the Right Cord • Putting Your Money on the Table • High School Hero • Burning Bridges • NVisioning the Future • Belgian Bugatti Builder • Scanning for the Masses • The Eyes Have It • ; Chapter 6: Work Fixtures; Chapter 7: Parting & Perforating the Quickwork Way; Chapter 8: Joining Cutting Welding – Tools Rediscovered – • Welders at War • Family Affairs • The Man Who Didn’t Invent the Cleco • Let the Lawsuits Begin! •; Chapter 9: Rolling Folding and Edging – Early Tools and Pioneers; Chapter 10: Ending at the Beginning – Early Metalworking Machines and Techniques; A Tribute to Timothy Barton: Remembering My Brother
