Title : PRODUCING THE FIRST HOLDEN
ENGINES
:
The 1946 Journals of a Tool Engineer
Publisher Published by MezWPublishing,
Castlemaine Australia, 2017 2nd Edition in 1918 with MINOR
editing.
Author Journals by Les Gould;
edited by Mez Woodward:
Binding : s Soft Bound
Pages 280 pages
Number of photos: Illustrated
Dimensions :32 x 32 cm
ISBN :9780646-979496
Book Condition NEW
Language English
Country of
Publication: : Australia
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ABOUT
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A large and very
specialised work
by s the daughter
of Leslie Gould, and she has now produced
a facsimile of
her father’s
irreplaceable detailed records kept while in the USA as an
emissary of General
Motors-Holdens in 1946. His his mission being to focus on
engine manufacture
only and to equip GM-H with the knowledge and the
home-base connections that
would enable local production of engines for the planned
Australian car.
He was given privileged access to all the principal
General Motors
facilities, travelling mostly solo to study the engine
production techniques
not only in Detroit but also all the other centres in the
GM’s North American
empire of the day.
Les Gould
was one of six GM-H engineers selected as an Australian
‘Project Team’ that
arrived in Detroit in March 1946. While the first
prototypes for GM’s
Australian car were being developed by others, Les Gould
went off on his own
and “studied the production of engines and related
mechanical components in
detail, including manufacturing methods and equipment,
tooling, maintenance,
quality control and people management, recording in his
journals with detailed
notes, drawings and charts”.
Those
hand-written journals have been reproduced in their
entirety by Les’ daughter
who has provided an interpretation in type alongside the
text for every entry.
This invaluable assistance enables the reader to
appreciate the extraordinary
skills and diligence that her father brought to his unique
mission. st-war
shortage and duress.
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