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100 Years of Brooklands: The Birthplace of British Motorsport & Aviation

by Allan Winn and John Pulford

Commissioned by the Brooklands Museum on the occasion of the famed circuit’s centenary in 2007, this book tells its story mainly in photos divided into three main sections by type of motivation—cars, motorcycles, and aircraft

Monte Carlo Rally: The Golden Age, 1911–1980

by Graham Robson

Robson loves the Monte! Trained as an automobile engineer he caught the bug after watching his first RAC rally in 1953 and became a driver himself for various works teams, and was manager of another before moving into rally journalism.

La Carrera Panamericana: “The World’s Greatest Road Race!”

by Johnny Tipler

In 2006 and 2007 Tipler accompanied the Panam as a journalist, trading rides in the press van for the occasional hitch in a service crew vehicle, which put him about as close to the action as you can get short of participating yourself.

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.

Ford in the Service of America: 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.

The Horten Brothers and Their All-Wing Aircraft

by David Myhra

WWII left the world with a number of very technologically advanced German twin-jet aircraft designs. The young Hortons were right there and made a mighty contribution.

Yesterday We Were in America: Alcock and Brown, First to Fly the Atlantic Non-stop

by Brendan Lynch

“Yesterday We Were in America!” Imagine saying that at a cocktail party—in 1919. This is the phrase pilot Alcock kept repeating to the crew of the Marconi radio station near which he had landed, and who simply would not believe him!

Bristol Cars: A Very British Story

by Christopher Balfour

Bristols are rarely mentioned by people outside of GB and especially in the same breath with other luxury British marques. However the firm does rank right up there in the lofty heights as makers of hand-built, limited-production, super luxury machines.

Wheels of Dreams: Vintage Cars and the People Who Love Them

by Tom Strongman

Strongman is a semi-retired newspaperman and his ability to get the story proves the value of such training. Beyond his words however, are the images of his color photography, which is beautifully and artfully displayed throughout the book’s 123 pages.

Peking to Paris, 100th Anniversary Edition

by Luigi Barzini

Barzini was a newspaper reporter by profession and war correspondent, but more than that—as this book attests—he’s a terrific storyteller with a terrific story to tell. He was along on every one of the 8,000 miles on two roadless continents in 1907.

Edoardo Bianchi, 1885–1964

by Antonio Gentile

Bicyclists will instantly relate the Bianchi name to famous professional racing and mountain bikes. Artists may remember that Picasso had a Bianchi bicycle in his studio and thought of it as “one of the most beautiful sculptures in the history of art.”

Avanti: The Complete Story

by John Hull

There have been a number of books that have attempted to chronicle the history and lineage of the Avanti. But until now few have given accurate or chronological details.

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