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The Yonge Street as conceived by Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe is celebrated, from its beginning as a First Nation's Trail, to the Yonge Street we know today, extending from Toronto to Innisfil. Augustus Jones, the surveyor assigned by Simcoe, the French, the German pioneers, the Loyalists...

Alan Stacey was a promising English driver for an upstart Team Lotus headed by manager and owner Colin Chapman. A few years into the 1960s Team Lotus would compete as an equal with the great factory cars fielded by Ferrari and Porsche. Stacey landed a Formula One ride after winning events such as...

Andrea de Cesaris was a Formula 1 driver who debuted with two "guest races" with Alfa Romeo during the 1980 season. He got his first ride with McLaren before Niki Lauda returned to racing and took his job, alongside teammate John Watson of Great Britain. Andrea was the son of a well established Philip...

Chris Bristow was a promising English racer who died very young while attempting to pass Willy Mairesse's Ferrari at Spa-Francorchamps during the Belgian Grand Prix of 1960. In doing so he took a line that caused him to veer off the circuit and was it impossible for him to recover from. Bristow's...

Glenn Fireball Roberts acquired his nickname as a sandlot baseball player before he pitched two years for the University of Florida baseball team. Roberts became one of the most successful NASCAR drivers and one of its most popular stars. He began driving in the 1950s and met a tragic end when he...

Piero Carini was a Ferrari driver from Genoa, Italy. A talented sports car racer, he joined the Ferrari works team in 1953. He also drove for Alfa Romeo in 1954 and Ferrari in sports car events worldwide. Carini's life was ended in a head on collision at St. Etienne, France in 1957, He ran through...

This book covers several topics including: Chapter 1: Electric Cars The Future Of Driving Chapter 2: Electric Cars Giving You Great Money Saving Advantages Chapter 3: All About Electric Cars And Its Great Advantages Chapter 4: Electric Cars And Hybrids Which One Should You Choose Chapter...

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION (1958): “… In this book John Christy and Karl Ludvigsen have set down not only the joy of MG ownership but a comprehensive history showing how it all began. However, they haven’t stopped there. A major portion of the book is devoted to maintaining and improving the more...

For owners and would be owners of four-wheeled, four-cylinder-engined Morgans, Ken Hill has created an invaluable ‘Bible’ which is absolutely packed with genuinely useful information.Ken sets the stage by detailing the history of the Morgan motor company, describes the marque’s motorsport record...

n a large sense the history of the rise of the automobile has been a history of some of the foremost inventors, mechanical engineers, manufacturers and active business men of more than a full century. The subject of self-propelled vehicles on the common roads has enlisted the faculties of many men...

A-Z of British Bus Bodies sets out to offer a first port of call for anyone with an interest in those who built bus and coach bodies in Britain and Ireland between 1919 and 1975. From charabanc to service bus, from luxury coach to municipal double-decker, the sheer variety of public service vehicle...

Coventry, home of the cycle industry, was also to become the birthplace of the motor industry when the Daimler Company became the first in Britain to mass produce cars in the late 1890s. Spearheaded by H.J. Lawson, Coventry soon became a hub of motoring activity, and by the early 1900s was teaming...

In the early 1960s, Tommy Ivo had the world in the palm of his hands. Still a young man, he was already a star of television and film with a promising Hollywood future ahead of him. Then his producers told him he had to quit drag racing. He quit the entertainment industry instead. This is the...

From the horse-drawn trams of the nineteenth century to the larger electric models of the early twentieth, this reliable form of public transport revolutionised town travel by making it affordable enough for working people to use. From the 1930s, the rise of the trolleybus, which also picked up power...