THE LINE AND THE LAP
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THE LINE AND THE LAP Book 1
4 parts · 14 h 46 min
Michigan and Ohio, 1863 to 1927. A farmer's son who hated farming takes a gasoline engine, a single stubborn model, and a four-story factory in Highland Park, and rearranges the sequence in which work reaches a man's hands. The car gets cheaper every year for nineteen years.
THE LINE AND THE LAP Book 2
4 parts · 16 h 6 min
Detroit and Flint, 1899 to 1956. William Durant assembles General Motors out of borrowed money and loses it twice. Henry Leland builds an engine to gauge limits nobody else can hold. Charles Kettering makes a motor that cranks the engine so a man does not have to.
THE LINE AND THE LAP Book 3
4 parts · 17 h 21 min
Alsace, Emilia and Texas, 1881 to 1966.
THE LINE AND THE LAP Book 4
4 parts · 16 h 33 min
Manchester, Derby and Ängelholm, 1863 to 2025. Henry Royce is a miller's son with a year of schooling who builds electric cranes until foreign competition takes the margin, buys a French car he dislikes, and makes a better one in the corner of his own works.
THE LINE AND THE LAP Book 5
4 parts · 14 h 26 min
Clermont-Ferrand, Boston, Flint, Prineville and Salt Lake City, 1889 to 2009. Four businesses that never built a car and took their living from the people who did. André and Édouard Michelin sell a tire that comes off its rim by hand, then publish a guide telling drivers where to sleep.
THE LINE AND THE LAP Book 6
4 parts · 17 h 48 min
Hamamatsu, Ulsan and Fremont, 1946 to 2020. Three men start car companies in countries or conditions that had no room for another one. Soichiro Honda rebuilds a bombed machine shop into a motorcycle works and then defies his own government's plan to keep him out of automobiles.