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The Art of the Engineer

by Ken Baynes and Francis Pugh

Nothing as powerful as a revolution happens without a plan. A “plan” in the most literal sense is what made the Industrial Revolution possible. In the context of this book it refers to the scientific illustrations that precede the actual building of things.

Races, Faces, Places: The Motor Racing Photography of Michael Cooper

by Paul Parker

This is the sort of book you pick up in an idle moment—and hours later wonder where the day has gone. Both in terms of photographic technique and storytelling there is much, much to discover here.

Porsche Moments: Photographs from Europe and Mexico 1953–1962

by Jesse Alexander

To anyone with a love of motorsport at the time we have come to think of as the sport’s golden age, names of photographers like Alexander are household names.

Ford in the Service of America: Mass Production for the Military during the World Wars

Mass Production for the Military during the World Wars

by Timothy J O’Callaghan

WWII lies two-thirds of a century in the past. It must be incomprehensible to those not alive then, that there was a time when virtually all the resources of our domestic life were directed towards a single goal; victory over clearly identified enemies.

Leydenfrost, The Baron of Aviation Art

by Hampton and Howard Wayt

Leydenfrost was a Hungarian artist who emigrated to America in the mid-1920s with three equally talented countrymen, Bela Lugosi, Peter Lorre and Paul Lucas. While his friends went on to Hollywood, Leydenfrost stayed in New York illustrating books.

Porsche Showroom Posters: The First 25 Years

by Everett Anton Singer

Historically, Porsche has actively used graphics and visual aids to promote its racing successes along with its charismatic line of road-going sportscars, particularly in its early years

Automobile Design: Twelve Great Designers and Their Work

by Ronald Barker, Anthony Harding (Editors)

The book is a collection of biographical essays of 12 designers of whose work the authors say “the current state of the art owes a lot to the knowledge which other designers have absorbed from them.”

Cars: Freedom, Style, Sex, Power, Motion, Colour, Everything

by Stephen Bayley

Everything about this book, inside and out, is “designerly”. It is not an automotive history, nor is it in any way “nuts-and-bolts” as both author and publisher attempt respectively to make clear in the book’s introduction and press material.

Sports Cars of the Future

by Strother MacMinn

First impression is this is a modest little book (especially if comparing it to some of the multi-pound coffee table picture books). But once read, especially if reading now in the 21st century, it is virtually impossible to forget.

The Classic Car Paintings of Alan Fearnley

by Alan Fearnley

If you have ever visited the corporate offices of Rolls-Royce, Porsche, or Mercedes, to name a few, you may have seen a “Fearnley” hanging on the wall. Scores of corporate and private clients have commissioned his work as he is one of Britain’s foremost contemporary artists of works with transportation themes.

The Art of Dexter Brown

by Robert Edwards

This biography in words and pictures in the publisher’s fine series on automobile art coincided with an exhibition of the artist’s “The Way We Were” series of some 50 paintings at the John Noot Galleries in England in October 2001. Brown was present at the gallery opening to sign copies of this book.

Of Firebirds & Moonmen: A Designer’s Story from the Golden Age

by Norman J James

If you were a newly-minted designer in the 1950s, the place you would want to go to work would be GM. Legendary Harley Earl ran his design division as his own private fiefdom, and his Knight’s Errant were his designers.

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