Four Wheels–No Brakes” was first printed in 1930 by the Auto Pioneers in St. Louis. According to historians, this was the only major U.S. city in which the pioneers produced a book on their own recollections. The book consists of a series of vignettes about the auto pioneers and includes brief histories of the first cars in and around St. Louis, races, inventions, breakdowns, production, and challenges. It’s a human story of a mechanical marvel. Republished 1990
