(This book is currently sold out.) In 1880 the Spyker brothers started a carriage factory. With the advent of the motorised car, they switched to the production of cars. Not nearly all inventions launched by the Amsterdam company were a success, but the development of the four wheel drive in 1903 and the first…
The horseless vehicle: the car in the Netherlands a century ago is a collection of contributions on early cars in the Netherlands. It appeared on the occasion of the first car to arrive in the Netherlands a century ago, in 1896.
Electric cars: A Trojan horse? (This book is currently sold out.) Vincent van der Vinne’s paper on the history of the electric car in the Netherlands from 1896 to 1920, set in the social context of that time, resulted in a joint article on the same subject with Gijs Mom. The article was published…
Motorcars in the Netherlands 1896-1940 Thesis for obtaining a Master’s degree. This research deals with the rise of the car in the Netherlands and what influence entrepreneurs, users, and the government had on the process. It is a detailed continuation of the research completed in 1989. Date of publication: 1992 Thesis, consisting of…