Download or read book From the Race Shop Floor written by Hedley J. Cox and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-11-06 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.