Archive for Author 'Sabu Advani', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.

RAF In Camera: 1950s

by Keith Wilson

Both in terms of aviation technology and politics, the 1950s were a fertile period because of the transition from propeller to jet and the global changes in the balance of power. This photo album documents both.

Tyler Alexander: A Life and Times with McLaren

by Tyler Alexander

From mechanic to team boss, the author chronicles his life at a seminal team in an ever-changing sport.

Cars I Could’ve, Should’ve, Kept

by Jackson Brooks

Who hasn’t uttered those words? Still, this author has no regrets and is just grateful to have been their custodian for even a little while.

Cherry’s Model Engines, The Story of the Remarkable Cherry Hill

by David Carpenter

Can you picture yourself pouring years of work into building a fully functional miniature machine from scratch—not a toy, if you please—and then giving it away?? Cherry Hill has done it. Twenty times.

The Wankel Rotary Engine, A History


by John B. Hege

A simple design, compact size, light weight, nearly vibration-free operation . . . so why is no one using this engine? In the 1970s automakers were tripping over themselves to license it. This book explains what happened. Or didn’t.

A Chronology of Aviation

by Jim Winchester

A handy and solid overview of civil and military flight but, inevitable in a book this small, limited in scope.

Brighton Belles, A Celebration of Veteran Cars

by David Burgess-Wise

The famous London-Brighton run admits only cars from the very dawn of motoring, from the middle of the nineteenth century up until 1904. What started as a primitive horseless carriage would turn into a 100 mph monster within a few short years.

The Pininfarina Book

by Günther Raupp (editor)

Is there such a thing as quintessential Italian style? Pininfarina, now 85 years in business, says yes. This book is supposed to make the case.

Female Tommies: The Frontline Women of the First World War

by Elisabeth Shipton

Why did men not want women in the military? Because it would have given them the right to vote! Perish the thought. But when nations were in danger of perishing, society changed its mind. For a while.

The Complete Bentley

by Eric Dymock

By the time of this book’s writing, 101 models had been built over some 90 years and they’re all in this lavishly illustrated book.

The Roycean: From Manchester to Crewe, via Derby, No. 6

by Tom Clarke, Will Morrison eds. 

The Roycean, now in its sixth year, is an annual journal containing scholarly articles by a number of contributors on arcane but fascinating aspects of the history of Rolls-Royce and (Derby- and Crewe-built) Bentley motorcars up to the 1960s.

The Ride: New Custom Motorcycles And Their Builders

by Chris Hunter, Robert Klanten editors

Motorcycles with attitude. From one-off cost-no-object confections to creatively stroked basic Honda S90s this book offers a global look at new philosophies and old skills.