Современное автомобилестроение. Сахарова Н.С. - 99 стр.

   Exersice 1. Read the text and match the appropriate title to it.

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                                Commercial Vehicles

   The new exhibition of commercial vehicles centres around a 1930s street scene,
showing home deliveries, road making, and passenger hire vehicles.
   The 1930s were a time of transition in the commercial vehicle world. Mass
produced light delivery vans and lorries flooded onto the roads, and the horse was
now only used for local delivery work. Diesel engines were used by heavy lorries and
steam wagons disappeared.
   The inter-war years were a boom time for the bus, coach and charabanc. In the
1920s bus companies leapt from a few hundred to four thousand. Bus design
developed rapidly with solid tyres, oil lamps and some open cabs disappearing and
double deckers had covered tops. The charabanc was a favourite for the company
outing or weekend excursion. Chilly and cramped, the charabanc opened up many
parts of Britain beyond the reach of railways and created a new leisure for the
working man.
   The lorry today carries just about everything we buy, sell, dispose of, or build.
Fuel delivery, removals, defence work, containers, supermarket supplies, tipping,
mixing, fire fighting; the list of tasks is endless.

   Exercise 1. Read the text and render it


   17.16 Text 16
                                 Motoring magazines

    It was the bicycle and the tricycle which first gave people the freedom to tour the
countryside in the 1870s. Into this background the motor car came to Great Britain in
1894. The first motoring magazine to appear was The Autocar in 1895 at a time when
there were less than seventy cars in the country – a far-sighted publisher! The first
journalist had to invent many of the motoring terms. If you did not know what an
autocar was, the magazine’s sub-title told you: The journal of the mechanically
propelled road carriage.
    New magazines then appeared thick and fast, The Auto-Motor and Horseless
Carriage Journal in 1896; The Motor Car Journal in 1899; Motor Traction in 1904
(later to become Motor Transport); and in 1902, the other great weekly, The Motor.
Car Illustrated, published by Lord Montagu, was launched in 1903 and was a sort of
Tatler of the motoring scene. In parallel with these were the motorcycling magazines,
some attracting even more readers than those about cars. The Motorcycle in 1903,
affectionately known as ‘The Blue’un’, was the first and for many years the most
successful. Its great rival through the decades, Motorcycling began in 1909.
    The early magazines contained articles about touring as the car gave people the
oportunity to travel more widely for pleasure than the bicycle ever could. There were
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