*1969 AMC Family Album*

American Motors Corporation itself is a yourig company. having been formed May 1, 1954. yet its family tree has deep roots and many branches. lts development. in fact. has paralleled the birth and growth of the dynamic American automobile industry since the turn of the century.
Thisfamily album chronicles that story with a total of 563 photographs of the automobiles and other motor vehicles produced within a span of nearly seven decades by today’s American Motors and its many predecessor companies.
Even the American Motors Family Album has its predecessors. An outgrowth of the Rambier Family Album and the Nash Family Album published earlier. this automotive “roll call’ has been issued periodically since 1951. lt is designed for students of automobile history and for antique-car restorers.

One of the most unusual photographs in American Motors’ archives is one showing the 1897 Rambler prototype which appears on page 6. A tiller-driven vehicle with a rear engine. it was hand-built in his bicycle factory in Chicago by Thomas B. Jeffery. An English-born inventor. he had achieved fame with his invention of the clincher tire in the 1 880s (leading to the development of the G & J pneumatic tire) and his development of the railroad velocipede which predated the hand car. Jeffery was best known. however. for his popular Rambler bicycles. which he built in Chicago from 1879 to the turn of the century, when he turned his full attention to the infant automobile industry.

Alter his purchase of the old Sterling Bicycle Company factory in Kenosha. Wisconsin. he and his son Charles began experiments leading to the introduction in March, 1902 of the Rambier automobile. Powered by a single-cylinder engine that developed eight horsepower, the first production model was an immediate success. More than i .500 runabout and stanhope models were built in 1902, marking Rambier as the world’s second mass-produced car—a year after Olds and a year ahead of Ford.
Growth and expansion after the first year carne quickly. as Rambier became one of the best-known of the early U.S. makes. To honor the company’s founder, the name was changed to Jeffery in 1914. and to Nash in 1917, after Charles W. Nash resigned as president of GeneraI Motors to buy the Jeffery firm and bring out a car under his own name. Nash merged with Kelvinator in 1937. and Nash-Kelvinator merged with Hudson Motor Car Company in 1954, to create American Motors Corporation. Hudson. one of the best-known and most successful of the independent automobile companies. had started out in Detroit in 1 909 and had built Essex and Terraplane as well as Hudson automobiles and commercial vehicles. One of its founders and Hudsons chief executive for many years was Roy O. Chapin. an industry pioneer.

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*1969 Chevrolet Blazer*

WIDE-TRACK STABILITY, PLENTY OF POWER
Lct Blazer introduce you to the wondertul world ol 4—wheel drive. Take it into backwoods wilderness. Cross a streain Run il LII) a mountain side. There aro few places a Biazer can’t 90.
lt’s like nothing else un wheels A car/truck combination with the sure stanco and stahility you’d never expect in a short wheelbase vehicle. The reason is Blazers unique wido-track design. Wheels aro set far apart like those on a passenger car or full-sized truck. The result is a steadier ride off the road. a smoother ride on the highway. Only Blazer has this Important advantage in its class.
Biazer leads the pack in power choices. tuo, Six and V8 engines rango up to a big 350 cu.-in. V8 rated ai 255 hp Greatest trans missio choice in its field, as well, with 3-speed and 4-speed manuals plus Turbo Hydra-matic.
Stamina comes naturally to Blazer’s 4-wheel drive chassis. A heavy-gauge steel ladder-type trame supports some of the toughest truck components in the business. And ifs all cushioned by an extra-strong suspension system. Turn the pago and see for yourself.

TOUGH, GO-ANYWHERE CHASSIS
FRAME—Tough ladder-type trame is designed to withstand the abuse ot offruad driving. Alligetor-jaw crossmembers are securely riveted lo hoavy-gauge channel side rails.

SUSPENSIONS—Frurit and rear suspensioris foature advanced dea’gn ol tapered-leaf spinga. Bcnetils include more uniform riding qualities and a Sign,ficant reduction in unsprung woight. Rear assemblies ave 2-slogo type with tour conventional Ioaves and one tapeved 1cM. Each leat is shot-peenod undet stress for increased durability. Ooubleacting shock absorbers al front and foar wheels contribute Io smoolh rido and precise handling.

AXLES—Front and rear aales leature quiel hypoid goaring br greater tooth contoct, estra strength. Froni oslo has 40-degree turn angie. providing Blaser with a lurniiig circle diameter of lust 36.66 tt. Rear asle shafts ave semi-lloating type.

DRIVE SHAFTS—Acciirately machined from alloy steel, carbur,ecd and herdened for durability. High-cepacity univeisal joints are balanced and purmanently sealed to eliminate poriodic sorvicing requirements.

BRAKES—Frorn and rear brako hydraulic systems aro soparate, operate trom a dual master cylinder connected directly to the brake pedol, li hydraulic pressure bss sltould occur in one system, the other remeins operative. Warning light on instrumenl panol signals driver when pedal is appbied il either system mallunctions. Brakes are self’odjusting Power brakes also ore ovailable.

TRANSMISSION—Standard 3-spoed synchromesh mariual transmission has shibt bovor mounted on steering column. A 4-speed transmission witlt Iloormounted shift bovor also is olIerei Turbo Hydro.matic 3-speed automatic tronsm’esion availabbe.

TRANSFER CASE—Standard 2-speed trunsber case offers a choico 01 high or bow ranges in 4.whool drive br a total al sia forward speeds. Power takoolb opening allows operation al wido variety of special equ’pmont using engine power. Positioning ot the transfer case—attochod to the transmission through an adapter— permits bowor trame height whibe maintaining esceblent gvound cleararico.
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Stazione di servizio

Per stazione di servizio si intende una struttura destinata al rifornimento di carburante ed all'assistenza agli autoveicoli ed ai loro trasportati.
Accanto alla erogazione di carburanti, che possono essere liquidi (principalmente benzina e gasolio) o gassosi come gas di petrolio liquefatti (GPL) o metano vi possono trovare posto altri servizi quali officine, autolavaggi, negozi, bar, ristoranti.

Le prime stazioni di servizio iniziano a diffondersi durante i primi decenni del 1900. In precedenza, durante i primi anni di diffusione dei veicoli con motore a combustione interna, i carburanti erano infatti venduti in confezioni sigillate nelle drogherie ed in altri negozi generici. La nascita della stazione di servizio corrisponde quindi con l'invenzione dei primi erogatori, dispositivi in grado di sollevare il prodotto petrolifero dal serbatoio interrato nel quale è stoccato e pomparlo attraverso una tubazione flessibile ed una pistola erogatrice sino al serbatoio dell'autoveicolo da rifornire. Le prime stazioni di servizio presentavano caratteristiche molto differenziate tra loro e lasciavano quindi molto spazio alla creatività dei progettisti che in questo modo hanno realizzato alcuni esempi significativi di una vera e propria architettura specifica. Nel corso del tempo, con la progressiva razionalizzazione delle reti di distribuzione e della conseguente riduzione del loro numero, si è assistito ad una sempre più spiccata standardizzazione della stazione di servizio che, nel caso di alcune grandi compagnie petrolifere multinazionali utilizzano gli stessi elementi tecnici e di comunicazione pubblicitaria in decine di diversi Paesi in tutti i continenti.
Attualmente in Italia esistono circa 21.000 stazioni di servizio distribuite tra strade e autostrade (dove vengono meglio definite come Area di servizio). Il loro erogato medio, che è in progressivo aumento, è ancora inferiore alla media europea mentre il loro numero è tuttora in costante diminuzione.

History of filling stations in the United States

The first places that sold gasoline were pharmacists, as a side line business. Henry Ford's use of mass-production techniques to manufacture automobiles made it possible for consumers to purchase cars at an affordable price. This increase in car ownership resulted in a greater demand for filling stations. The world's first gas station was built in St. Louis, Missouri in 1905 at 412 S. Theresa Avenue[1]. The second gas station was constructed in 1907 by Standard Oil of California (now Chevron) in Seattle, Washington. Reighard's gas station in Altoona, Pennsylvania claims that it dates from 1909 and is the oldest existing gas station in the United States. Early on, they were known to motorists as "filling stations". Standard Oil began erecting roadside signs of their logo to advertise their gas stations.
 

 



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