Several illustrations from the book “The Birth of the Car” by Yu. Dolmatovsky, published in 1950.
Book cover.
The carriages needed brakes.
Kulibina scooter.
Guryev's land steamship.
Benz's first car
Braking test of a car and a horse-drawn carriage.
Comrade Stalin daily monitors the development of our automobile industry...
Comrade Stalin said... Comrade Stalin did.
Car production in the USSR
Steam car "NAMI"
The first AMO-F-15 cars
How a Soviet car is made.
Car GAZ-51
Diagram of the development of car streamlining.
The main types of Soviet cars in 1950.
Probable appearance of future passenger cars.
Jumper car
On the highways of the future Moscow.
Source: chronograph