From The Race Shop Floor

About the Book

This is the inside story of how motorcycle race team of the 'forties worked. How a division in the company's outlook drove it to bankruptcy. The story of how a member of the racing team saw it all. How he participated in racing, and devised a new machine, but was swept aside. How he emigrated, and tried to get a factory to embrace a new world view but was frustrated again. Lessons that Detroit might heed. How he moved into an academic program, and aided the US Air Force in its search for lower costs.

About the Author

The author has always been fascinated by motorcycles. When young he was a racing mechanic for a famous firm, then, took up racing himself. When his firm folded, he came to America, and entered the same Industry there. He was frustrated at its inability to enlarge its perceptions, so entered academia, which enabled him to solve problems that had baffled his former employers.