Automobile Body Engineering and Surface Development: Introducing the "Replicator Method", 1946, 1946

"Document Type: Book (Technical Reference)

Purpose: Authoritative reference

Authority: Author Expertise.

Scope (from Preface): ""This book is dedicated to the passenger car body industry and the men of know-how, whose responsibilities are to work out the engineering and development problems and pass the information to the fabricating branches to complete the product. It contains new methods of body surface development and methods of proportional enlargement and reduction of objects developed by the author.""

Contents (from Table of Contents): Use of Triangles in Body Engineering Elliptics and Proportional Curves Methods of Laying Out True and Graduated Curves by Proportions Principles and Use of Proportional Keys for Surface Development Laying Out Proportional Sweeps by Parallels and Proportional Reductions Increasing and Reducing of Objects by Proportional Replicator Method When Placed Off the Object. Increasing and Reducing of Objects by Replicator Method When Placed Within the Object Blackboard Outline of Passenger Car Laying Out and Designing the Plan-View of Body Body Surface Development Complete for Preparation of Clay, Wood, or Plaster Model Construction of Proportional Keys and Results Front Part of Roof and Side Turnunder Development by Proportional Replicator Method Root, Hood, and Windshield Opening Development Through Vertical and Horizontal Section Lines Windshield Opening Layout in True Views Construction of Proportional Key for Development of Rear Part of Roof Roof Development through Vertical Cross-Section Lines by Replicator Method Projection of Horizontal and Vertical Section Lines Through Roof Laying Out Back-Light and Decklid Opening in True and Projected Views Proportional Replicator Section Lines Transposed To Side and Plan-Views The Conventional Double-Key Tangent Section Surface Development and Resultant Vertical Cross-Section Lines Comparative Results between Tangent Surface Development and Replicator Method Comparison of Cross-Section and 45° Highlight Lines Cut Through Vertically on Tangent Surface Development and Those Produced by Replicator Method Surface Development to Intersection Points by Proportional Replicator Method Rounding of Roof Between Tangent Lines after Development of Intersection Points Vertical and Horizontal Lines Cut Through Intersection Point Development. Increasing or Reducing a Fender or Any Object by Proportional Replicator Method Front Fender Surface Development by Replicator Method Front Fender Vertical and Horizontal Section Lines Rear Fender Surface Development by Replicator Method Rear Fender Vertical and Horizontal Section Lines Body Assembly Information Layout Drawn on Metal Panel Outline of Four-door Sport Sedan with Deck Surface Development of a Sedan or Coupe, with Deck by Proportional Replicator Method Vertical and Horizontal Section Lines Cut Through Replicator Development Development of Side Sweep and Turnunder of a Tonneau by Conventional Method. Development of Side Sweep and Turnunder of a Tonneau by Replicator Method"