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A Victorian Scientist and Engineer: Fleeming Jenkin and the Birth of Electrical Engineering

by Gillian Cookson and Colin A Hempstead

Admittedly, this topic is a bit removed from the field of transportation but electricity is an inseparable aspect of it. Moreover, there are not many books that shed light on the state of engineering or the education and training of engineers in the Victorian Age.

The Ferrari Phenomenon: An Unconventional View of the World’s Most Charismatic Car

by M Stone & L Dal Monte

It is obvious from the first sentence that the authors asked themselves the same question a reader would: Another Ferrari book? Inspired by their own biographical moments both of them have a long-standing desire to contribute to the Ferrari universe.

Harry Truman’s Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip

by Matthew Algeo

Road trips, and the books wherein the tales of each are told, continually attract and delight readers. First-person stories from writers like William Least-Heat Moon with his Blue Highways and John Steinbeck telling of hisTravels with Charley have entertained, informed, and motivated others to go exploring.

Alan Bristow, Helicopter Pioneer: The Autobiography

by Alan Bristow and Patrick Malone

Even if helicopters are not your thing, read this book for the sheer audaciousness of its protagonist. If you have an interest in (British) politics, realize that it is Bristow’s role in the “Westland Affair” that embarrassed the Thatcher government and almost caused its fall.

Intermeccanica, The Story of the Prancing Bull (1st ed.)

by Andrew McCredie & Paula Reisner

Sports cars with sexy Italian coachwork and solid European and American mechanicals. Half a century later Intermeccanica still turns out high-quality hand-built vehicles.

Tatra, The Legacy of Hans Ledwinka (1st ed)

by Ivan Margolius & John G. Henry

Who actually designed the original air-cooled volkswagen? Was it Ferdinand Porsche, or was it a Tatra creation appropriated by the Nazis? This book gives you the Tatra side of the story.

Stirling Moss: All My Races

by Stirling Moss and Alan Henry

Forty-seven years after his career-ending crash during testing in 1962 Stirling Moss turned 80 in 2009, the year this book was published. It must be nice to turn 80 and be able to look back on a full and unusual life.

Phil Hill: A Driving Life

by Phil Hill and John Lamm

This oversize book gathers 26 of the 100-odd articles American racer Phil Hill (1927–2008) wrote in his 30 years as a contributor to Road & Trackmagazine.

Ferdinand Porsche, Genesis of Genius: Road, Racing and Aviation Innovation 1900 to 1933

by Karl Ludvigsen

For a paltry $100 you are getting a veritable education in matters political, economical, scientific, and psychological. It isn’t just about a precocious youth and ambitious engineer, but about the world and times he lived in.

Let ’Em All Go!

by Chris Economaki

A “must have” if you have any interest whatsoever in any aspect of motorsports. There are few who have seen as much, experienced as much, or spent as many years across all facets of the sport and business as Economaki.

The Brothers Rodríguez

by Carlos Eduardo Jalife-Villalón

This book tells us not only about Pedro’s life on the track, but it also traces his and his brother Ricardo’s rise from obscurity to international celebrity status, and ends with their untimely deaths.

Enrico Nardi, A Fast Life

by Dino Brunori, Andrea Curami

Enrico Nardi would probably be amused at the attention he continues to receive some 43 years after his death in 1966. More at home in the shop than in social situations, money, fame, or gold watches did not impress him much.

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