Bodies Beautiful Book by By John Mclellan

A History of Car Styling and Craftmanship

Published by David & Charles 1975

Books about the history of coachbuilding and the development

of motor-car bodywork are difficult to write but John Mclellan

covers the subject very admirably, commencing with a discourse

on the carriage trade when horses pulled the carriages and

 dealing with the design of such vehicles and how the presence of

horses helped the artistic lines of them, which was something

that was missing when bodies had to be put onto horseless carriages.

The connection between the mail phaeton, the George IV phaeton,

the spider, the high-flyer phaeton and other carriages, and the motor car,

is gone into and constructional methods of the old masters revealed.

192 Pages

Size 255 x 175 mm

Hardback with DJ