Porsche - The Man and His Cars
by Richard Von Frakenberg and Richard Von Frankenberg
The McLaren MP4/4 is the iconic Honda V6 turbo-powered F1 car built by McLaren for the 1988 grand prix season, driven by Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost. Remarkably, the car won all but one race during the year, and took McLaren's new recruit Senna to his first World Championship after a season-long battle with team-mate Prost. McLaren achieved an astonishing ten 1-2 finishes with the car, and suffered only two car-related retirements during the season. The MP4/4 is still statistically the most dom...
Tube, Train, Tram, and Car; Or Up-To-Date Locomotion
by Arthur H (Arthur Henry) Beavan
In its updated second edition, this book tells the story of how the automobile transformed American life and how automotive design and technology have changed over time. The author covers the cars' inception as a mechanical curiosity and later a plaything for the wealthy; racing and the promotion of the industry; Henry Ford and the advent of mass production; market competition during the 1920s; the development of roads and accompanying highway culture; the effects of the Great Depression and Wor...
Motoring Around Hereford, Worcester and the Welsh Marches
by A. B. Demaus
This title is a pictoral history of early 20th transportation in various areas along the English and Welsh border.
For Maranello enthusiasts, this chunky, inexpensive paperback is a must-have purchase as it profiles every car, model-by-model, from the Ferrari 'preview' of 1940 to the present day. A unique catalogue, it features a specially commissioned colour drawing for each road and racing car, together with archive photography, informative text and specification. Where a single-seater, sports racing model or prototype competed for more than one season or, in the case of a GT, remained in production for se...
This is the previously untold story of a very special British racing team. The British Racing Partnership (BRP), which operated from 1958 to 1964, is best known for its association with Stirling Moss, who was driving a BRP-entered car at Goodwood on that fateful day in 1962 when a serious crash ended his career. Less familiarly, BRP became the first fully sponsored team in Formula 1, partnering with Yeoman Credit, a go-ahead finance house, in an initiative that led to a transformation of the spo...
Sound and Safe
by Professor in the Department of Technology & Society Studies Karin Bijsterveld, Instructor Department of Technology and Society Studies Eefje Cleophas, Researcher Stefan Krebs, and Associate Professor of the History of Technology and Mobility Gijs Mom
Four-Wheel Drive and Land-Rover (Album S., #2) (Shire Album S., #221)
by Nick Baldwin
Four-wheel drive was first tried on steam-powered agricultural machinerey; then it was adopted as a cure for sideslip in racing cars. Its wider application was shown from about 1910 in North America in vehicles able to traverse unsurfaced roads previously impassable in winter. Developments in the 1930s culminated in the American Jeep. Thousands of four-wheel drive vehicles were used in the Second World War and afterwards many found their way into agriculture, forestry and specialised transpor...
The Most Complete Car Encyclopedia - Volume I - AA to Am - Full Color Edition
by Vasilescu Petru Ionut
Thierry Dehaeck is a widely respected classic car collector with a top collection. He owns unique cars from different brands such as a Citroën SM Espace that was displayed at the Paris “Salon de l’Auto” in 1971, a Mercedes 300SL Gullwing from 1955, or a Rolls Royce Silver Cloud III DHC once owned by Nicolas Cage. Dehaeck also has a nice collection of L'Autopède carousel carts . Thierry Dehaeck is an author and manager of real estate company Dedelco and an avid car collector for many years. He...
Ouststanding among the cars that raced at the motor course at Brooklands from 1907 to 1939 were those giants with engines of over 10-litres capacity, many having even larger power units. Some cars were of very basic construction with flimsy chassis and chain drive, but others were large racing machines from an earlier age and had an aura of antiquity even then. The sight and sound of these monsters racing around the steeply banked outer circuit in the Lightening Handicaps and other races thrille...