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Автор: Bill Sherk
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      60 YEARS

      BEHIND THE WHEEL

       The Cars We Drove in Canada1900–1960

      Bill Sherk

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      A HOUNSLOW BOOK

      A MEMBER OF THE DUNDURN GROUP

      TORONTO OXFORD

      Copyright © Bill Sherk, 2003

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system,

      or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or

      otherwise (except for brief passages for purposes of review) without the prior permission of

      Dundurn Press. Permission to photocopy should be requested from Access Copyright.

      Publisher: Anthony Hawke

      Copy-Editor: Andrea Pruss

      Design: Jennifer Scott

      Printer: University of Toronto Press

       National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication Data

      Sherk, Bill, 1942-

      60 years behind the wheel: the cars we drove in Canada, 1900–1960 / Bill Sherk.

      ISBN 1-55002-465-5

      1. Automobiles — Canada — History. I. Title. II. Title: Sixty years behind the wheel.

      TL26.S456 2003 388.3’42’0971 C2003-904043-7

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      We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council for our publishing program. We also acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program and The Association for the Export of Canadian Books, and the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Book Publishers Tax Credit program, and the Ontario Media Development Corporation’s Ontario Book Initiative.

      Care has been taken to trace the ownership of copyright material used in this book. The author and the publisher welcome any information enabling them to rectify any references or credit in subsequent editions.

       J. Kirk Howard, President

      Printed and bound in Canada.60_Years_behind_the_wheel_0002_002

      Printed on recycled paper.

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       From rumble seats and running boards to powertops and tailfins, this book captures in stories andphotographs the thrill of motoring in Canadafrom the dawn of the twentieth century to 1960

       60 YEARSBEHIND THE WHEEL

       To my loving wife Brenda,my front-seat passenger on the highway of life,whose faith and encouragement helped make this book a reality

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