Trucks - France: Books - History and Models

Les géants de la route - Camions français des années 50-60

Through this beautiful work, rich in more than 1000 photos, illustrations and documents, the author has endeavored to present a moving, captivating testimony of what was the great epic of the heavy goods vehicle in France in the 50s and 60s.
In every child's memory, one of these proud giants always lives. Let us now turn the pages and let ourselves be won over by this heroic atmosphere of the trucking of yesteryear.

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Essor de la motorisation, du cheval de guerre au cheval vapeur 1914-1918

In August 1914, when the First World War broke out, France fielded 89 horse cavalry regiments. At the same time, the army's fleet of vehicles only had 220 of its own.
In a few weeks, the direction taken by military operations would impose a complete inversion of proportions. The cavalrymen dismounted while the requisition brought several thousand of the 80 000 motor vehicles of all types in use in the country into the armies. This was the beginning of a motorization that would be at the origin of a formidable industrial boom.

After having painted the portrait of a magnificent cavalry, but outdated despite the glorious actions it delivered during the first weeks of the war, this work evokes the progressive takeover of the battlefield by the automobile, the armoured cars, the trucks, then the tanks.

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Véhicules industriels et jouets des Trente Glorieuses

The technological impetus given by the Second World War, accentuated by the post-war situation which left almost everything to be rebuilt or renovated, led to rapid developments in all sectors of society.

This was the "maelstrom" of the Trente Glorieuses, a period of great creativity in all areas. Toys did not escape this dynamic which led to rapid changes. This was particularly the case for toy vehicles offered to children, initially crude and most often made of wood, which began a slow and profound transformation whose ultimate expression today is model making.
They were toys, today they are objects highly sought after by collectors. They are also heritage with all the force of this word because, very often, they perpetuate the memory of industrial and human adventures whose page has now been definitively turned: that of the great brands that have disappeared.

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Attelées

How to promote the magnificent French horse-drawn heritage, witness to the needs, tastes and know-how of an era? By revealing its wealth and past prestige!
This beautiful, highly illustrated book is a rich inventory of around thirty families of vehicles and their teams, chosen to be typical of a region and an activity. A real dive into the hard-working France of yesteryear!

Part of the book is devoted to rural vehicles and teams: farm carts, wine carts, farm dumpers, trolleys, triqueballes, hand trucks, logging trucks, flour trucks, livestock trucks, planters, traveling sales cars.

A second part focuses on urban vehicles and teams: trucks, sales cars, removal cars, haquets, brewers', lemonade and wine merchants' cars, ice boxes, milkmen's cars, market gardeners' cars, coal miners' cars, plasterers' cars, construction site vehicles (tar spreaders, rollers, paving and sand dumpers, stone dumpers, etc.), road maintenance and public hygiene (torpedo boats, sweepers, road workers' dumpers, rubbish and bulky waste removal, emptying cars), exceptional convoys.

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