Rolls-Royce and the Indian Princes

by Murad Ali Baig

Indian Maharajas and Rolls-Royces make for a colorful combination. This little booklet captures some of that in the form of period postcards.

Automotive Climate Control: 116 Years of Progress

by Gene D. Dickirson

How do we stay warm in a car? In the olden days, lap robes and braziers; today, electronically controlled multi-zone systems with memory function that let you drive from pole to pole with only minimal temperature fluctuation inside the cabin. Also covers a/c and ancillary systems.

Contact

by Carl Sagan

Is there anybody out there? Why should we care? The scientific details made Sagan’s novel utterly plausible, even if every reader may have a  different take on the grey area where science and religion touch.

Transcontinent 1910: The Automotive Adventures of Two Young Men

by Mark Chaplin

See the USA in your . . . Oldsmobile. From Massachusetts to Oregon. And back. Did they make it? Read about it in the autoists own words.

Atlas Shrugged

by Ayn Rand

This is one of those books one feels one “has” to read to be a card-carrying member of the civilized world—if only it weren’t so intimidatingly long and complex and, well, difficult. Unless you are, as one of the characters in the book, “impervious to thought” this review may change your mind!

X-Planes: German Luftwaffe Prototypes 1930–1945

by Manfred Griehl

Considering that work done in this period by the Germans would find practical application pretty much everywhere after the war and have long-lasting influence, you’d better read this book!

The Onion Book of Known Knowledge

by Joe Randazzo

A parody on life as you know it, or don’t. Or: everything you ever wanted to know about nothing in particular.

A History of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars: Volume One, 1903–1907

by C W Morton

In the Forword, famed early Rolls-Royce collector and restorer Stanley Sears says: “THIS book had to be written and no one is more qualified to do so than Morton.”

The Duplicata, Catch Me If You Can

by David Thornhill Thompson

Follow the trail of a mega-dollar Ferrari in this “mystery, love story, thriller.”

From Ocean Liner to Cruise Ship: The Marine Art of Harley Crossley

by Harley Crossley

Forget paintbrushes! Ever painted with knives?? A practitioner for over 30 years, Crossley is the master—so why is this only his first book??

Pure Luck, The Authorised Biography of Sir Thomas Sopwith

by Alan E. Branson

Camel, Pup, Hurricane, Typhoon, Tempest, Lancaster, Harrier. You know the names, now meet the man behind them and many other aviation, business, and sporting accomplishments.

The Royal Air Force: An Encyclopedia of the Inter-War Years

by Ian M. Philpott

From tactics to equipment, the RAF underwent drastic changes at a time the world was making great efforts to avoid or at least manage conflict. A complex story told in a complex set of books.

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