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Racing for Mercedes-Benz, A Dictionary of the 240 Fastest Drivers of the Marque

by Hartmut Lehbrink

The firm we know now as Mercedes-Benz is among the longest-lived and most storied marques in the automotive firmament. Naturally, racing is a key element in its success, and here, for the first time, is a compendium of the names that made it so.

Rolls-Royce Chassis Card Index

Vol 1: 40/50 HP (Ghost) plus very early cars

complied by Barrie Gillings

Anyone with an interest in the impact of the early motorcar on culture and society, early automobility, industrial history, or even a Who’s Who of the early 20th century will find in the almost 40,000 Rolls-Royce files on DVD an inexhaustible store of raw data.

Chassis 141, The Story of the First Le Mans Bentley

by Clare Hay

Hay has earned recognition as a pre-eminent chronicler of WO Bentleys from sweeping histories written about the Bentley firm during its early Cricklewood years. Painstakingly researched, these books are among the most definitive, respected canons of Bentley literature.

British Racing Green: Drivers, Cars and Triumphs of British Motor Racing

by David Venables

This is the first of several books in the “Racing Colours” series edited by the renowned Karl Ludvigsen. The book presents its topic organized by marque, one per chapter, for the proverbial “household” names. Several of the “lesser” ones are bundled together, ending with a four-page chapter bringing up the rear of the field.

Classic British Car Electrical Systems

by Rick Astley

Utter the word LUCAS and grown men will quake in their boots. Astley explains the reasons for Lucas’ market dominance and their relationship to Smiths, Rists, and Autolite—and that Lucas built to a price point: meaning you get what you pay for! So there.

Magic Motors 1930

by Brooks T Brierley

One way to approach this book is to consider it as an essay in photos. The introduction states right away that the reader is “assumed to have some familiarity with the subject” and that the book is not meant to be “a comprehensive marque-by-marque history.”

Equations of Motion: Adventure, Risk and Innovation

by William F Milliken

You’ve heard the saying about someone having “forgotten more than the rest of us will ever know.” This certainly applies to Bill Milliken, except that he hasn’t forgotten anything! He was 95 years old when he published the first version of this autobiography, the hardcover edition.

Rust In Peace

by Malcolm Tucker

The proverbial tooth of time spares nothing and no one. As the title implies, this book features automobiles in various states of decay and disintegration. While this may appear an odd, or morbid, topic for a coffee table book, it is the inevitable fate of most cars.

The British at Le Mans, 85 Years of Endeavour

by Ian Wagstaff

Today, racing is as international an enterprise as one could imagine. Why then should the British connection to Le Mans be thought especially noteworthy? From the first running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1923, the British had a presence there, aAdmittedly with reluctance at first.

British Woodies From the 1920s to the 1950s

by Colin Peck

To an American reader, woodies may seem a quintessential American answer to a practical problem: a shortage of steel. But the Brits, too, suffered the same problem and, necessity being the mother of invention, came up with the same answers.

Paolo Martin: Visions in Design

by Paolo Martin

You may look at the cover and see a famous Ferrari but Martin is really at home in any area of design, a story told here in over a thousand images accompanied by thoughtful and inspiring commentary by the man himself.

Armoured Trains: An Illustrated Encyclopedia 1825–2016

by Paul Malmassari

From a battleship on rails to nimble if sometimes slapdash scout trolley, armored—and armed—trains have seen action much more recently than you might think. They have their limits but obviously they fulfill a role only they can do. This book gives you almost 200 years of examples.

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