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

W.O. Bentley: The Man Behind The Marque

by Malcolm Bobbitt

Bentley is one of the most storied marques in British history. Despite its racing successes, more precisely because of them and their drain on the corporate coffers, Bentley did not survive the Great Depression as an independent marque but rather found itself the neglected stepchild in the Rolls-Royce family.

Pistons to Blades
: Small Gas Turbine Developments 
by the Rover Company

by Mark C S Barnard

A gas turbine-powered Bentley in the late 1940s? Could have happened! The background to this book is the swap of Rover’s jet engine work for Rolls-Royce’s Meteor tank engine program in 1943.

Bentley: 3½ and 4¼ Litre 1933–40 In Detail

by Nick Walker

At the time period this book covers, Bentleys were built by Rolls-Royce which had taken over Bentley in 1931 in an attempt to thwart the competition and prevent Bentley from going to Napier which would have constituted an even more formidable challenge to Rolls-Royce.

Rolls-Royce Hillington: Portrait of a Shadow Factory

by Peter Sherrard

Preparing for WWII, the Shadow Factory scheme was the British Government’s attempt to guard against the possible loss of key industrial sites, in this case the Rolls-Royce factory at Derby. The Hillington plant on the outskirts of Glasgow was Rolls-Royce’s first site in Scotland and, in addition to the factory at Crewe, the second Shadow Factory.

Around-the-World Flights: A History

by Patrick M Stinson

It’s all relative. To an SR-71 Blackbird pilot who’s clocked 2000+ mph zipping around the globe in about 11 hours the 530-odd mph your average commercial jet achieves are boringly slow. Only 55 years before the fastest recorded SR-71 flight, pilots on the first around-the-world challenge (1921) were given 100 days to make the trip.

Mustang Genesis: The Creation of the Pony Car

by Robert A. Fria

Fria has the distinction of owning since 1997 the first Ford Mustang hardtop with a factory-issued VIN (5F07U100002) and fully restored it. That alone does not make him an expert, it’s the 10 years of research and the tracking down and interviewing many of the surviving players in the Mustang story.

Motor Racing: The Pursuit of Victory 1930–1962

by Anthony Carter

Slightly smaller than its 2005/2007 predecessor—and also slightly cheaper; not at all to be taken for granted—this new book dials the clock farther back, to the 1930s. More specifically, the 1933–1939 racing years and then, interrupted by the war and its aftermath, the 1950–1962 era.

British Warships in the Age of Sail 1603–1714: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates

by Rif Winfield

If all you know about sailing ships comes from the occasional pirate movie, the level of magnification this book and its two companion volumes bring to the task is probably overkill. Even for the fairly specialized reader these books are hardly casual reading.

The Magic of a Name: The Rolls-Royce Story, Part 1: The First Forty Years

by Peter Pugh

If you associate the name “Harold Nockolds” with a book of this title you are making the right connections but this is not a re-edition of Nockolds’ 1938 classic that covered the first 34 years of Rolls-Royce history.

Lady’s Men: The Story of World War II’s Mystery Bomber and Her Crew

by Mario Martinez

Martinez is the first to accept that his book is at odds, sometimes sharply so, with other accounts on certain vital points. Even so, his conclusions about an American bomber that simply vanished one night in the Libyan Desert in 1943 after its first and only combat mission have never been seriously challenged by anyone.

New ETAI Books for Fall 2011

French publisher ETAI is releasing four new books: ARONDE, le printemps de Simca by Christian Cazé Encyclopédie de la carrosserie française by Serge Bellu YACCO, l’huile des records by Xavier Chauvin Soixante de Formule 1, l’histoire complète vue par le Daily Mail by Tim Hill

New Book About US Grand Prix

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first US Grand Prix (Oct. 8, 1961) at Watkins Glen publisher David Bull announces the release of a new book by Michael Argetsinger, “Formula One at Watkins Glen: 20 Years of the United Staes Grand Prix, 1961–1981”.          

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