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

Tricycles, Quadricycles and Light Cars 1894–1907: A Forgotten History

by Aldo Carrer

Tons of photos—but little else—of the earliest of the early days of mobility. From vehicles to buildings to fashion, you’re “not in Kansas anymore.”

Autowork

by Robert Asher and Ronald Edsforth (Editors) 

What’s life like on the “inside” for the men and women who make cars in the US? From the early days up to the 1980s, these essays paint a not so rosy picture of the conditions at work and, by extension, at home.

The 1924 Coolidge-Dawes Lincoln Tour

by Larry Krug

Eyewitness accounts from an epic US presidential campaign that covered thousands of miles by road, involved over 100,000 vehicles, and reached millions of people—in 1924, when passable roads where still a novelty.

Surviving Trainer & Transport Aircraft of the World

by Don Berliner

Add experimental planes, gliders, helicopters and various record-setters to the title and you see how far this book ranges. If you want to find them in museums, this book is the guide.

Americas Wildest Show Rods of the 1960s & 1970s

by Scotty Gosson

Imagine you went to a car show—with the very people who designed or built those cars. And heard them rib and egg each other on. And hear the respect too. That’s this book.

The Other Side of Airfix: 60 Years of Airfix Toys

by Arthur Ward

From baby toys to Dr. Who figures and crochet sets to binoculars, Airfix produced a whole bunch of things other than plastic kits—and sometimes didn’t even put their name on. This book shows many of them.

Heritage of the Sea: Famous Preserved Ships Around the UK

by Peter C. Smith

Where are they now, the ships that embodied Britain’s proud tradition as a great sea-faring nation? Are they national treasurers or scrap metal?

The Roycean: From Manchester to Crewe, via Derby, No. 4

Tom Clarke, Will Morrison eds.

An annual compendium of serious Rolls-Royce scholarship for serious Rolls-Royce historians written by the proverbial pillars of the community.

The Battleship Builders: Constructing and Arming British Capital Ships

by Ian Johnston & Ian Buxton

The battleship as a case study for how it’s made. And why, and by whom. A good, important, useful big-picture book even if the actual pictures are too, too small.

Messerschmitt Bf 109 F

by Robert Michulec

Probably the most famous of the German fighter planes, the Bf109 was the backbone of the Luftwaffe and the most produced fighter aircraft in history.

American Military Transport Aircraft Since 1925

by E.R. Johnson

Can’t tell one hulking plane from another? Don’t know the difference between tactical and strategic airlift? Don’t know that the Jumbo Jet you’ve been flying for the past 40 years has a military cousin? It’s all here.

Race Man Jim Travers and the Traco Dynasty

by Gordon Chance

Traco was never a household name, and its founders didn’t care if it was, but it was probably the largest producer of racing engines in the world. Written by an engine builder who also did his Traco stint, this book explains the who, why, what, when, where.

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