Archive for Items Categorized 'Automobiles', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.
Carriages to Cars
by Steve Bradford-Best
British country coachbuilder Ralph E. Sanders & Sons were active from around 1900 to the 1930s. Long overlooked by the motoring writer they are now introduced into the record by a local boy.
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.
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.
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 Last Days of Henry Ford
by Henry Dominguez
Not just the “last days” but the last 18 months. New details and new perspectives paint a more human picture of this tortured tycoon.
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.
Total Performers: Ford Drag Racing in the 1960s
by Charles R. Morris
If you think a Velvet Brute is an umbrella drink you’d better read this book, quick. Written by someone who drove those cars in that decade the book offers an authentic look at a very unusual era marked, not least, by a Chevy v Ford debate on full boil.
Professor Porsche’s Wars
by Karl Ludvigsen
Ferdinand Porsche’s very successes had the unintended consequence of making him an increasingly indispensable national asset. This proximity to power kept his order books full, but at what cost?
The Early Days
by Davide Bassoli
Focusing on the launch year of the Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud/Bentley S Series this unusual book takes the reader back to 1955 to experience the car as a contemporary would have. People who like to “play” with books are in for a surprise!
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