Domestic list 19

Works rally Mechanic

BMC/BL Works Rally Department 1955-79

by Brian Moylan
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016

The inside story of the BMC/BL Competition Department from 1955 to 1979 under the various management styles of Marcus Chambers, Stuart Turner, Peter Browning, Basil Wales, Richard Seth-Smith, Bill Price and John Davenport. From a works mechanic’s point of view, Brian Moylan tells how competition cars...

Morris Minor

70 years on the road

by Ray Newell
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018

The postwar Morris Minor, designed by Alec Issigonis, was one of the most popular British cars. 2018 marks 70 years since the first Minors rolled off the production lines at Cowley in Oxfordshire. In this celebratory publication Ray Newell looks in detail at the development of the wide range of models...

The MGA

Revised Paperback Edition

by John Price Williams
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016

This new book is the definitive study, for the author has gone back to factory records and to the people who worked on the car in the 'fifties, to find out how it was conceived, manufactured and marketed. Here is the real story of the MGA's engineering, body styling and every aspect of the car's development...

Don Hayter’s MGB Story

The birth of the MGB in MG’s Abingdon Design & Development Office

by Don Hayter
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016

This is the inside story of the workings of the MG Design and Development Office from 1956 until MG's closure in 1980. It explains how the various models were conceived, drawn, planned and developed by a small team of engineers. It also shows how the constant evolution of BMC, including the Triumph-Austin...

Jowett A Century of Memories

by Noel Stokoe
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2010

In 1906, brothers Benjamin and William Jowett designed and built their first car. Within four years, in 1910, they had started production of the Jowett, an ultra-economy light car in their home town of Bradford. In 2010, Jowett owners came together in Yorkshire to mark the centenary of the marque....

Roads Were Not Built for Cars

How cyclists were the first to push for good roads & became the pioneers of motoring

by Carlton Reid
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015

In Roads Were Not Built for Cars, Carlton Reid reveals the pivotal—and largely unrecognized—role that bicyclists played in the development of modern roadways. Reid introduces readers to cycling personalities, such as Henry Ford, and the cycling advocacy groups that influenced early road improvements,...

Rolls-Royce

by Mr James Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017

Rolls-Royce is one of Britain's legendary car brands, representing the pinnacle of engineering quality and luxury like no other manufacturer. Since 1904, when Charles Stewart Rolls and Frederick Henry Royce began their collaboration, the Rolls-Royce name has earned respect and admiration the world...

British Touring Car Racing

The crowd’s favourite - late 1960s to 1990

by Peter Collins
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015

This book is a brief but affectionate, mainly pictorial panorama of twenty-odd years of the British Touring Car Championship, from the anarchical 1960s and early 1970s of flared wheelarches, lifting wheels and smoking tyres, through the Group 1 years when the rule-makers tried to make the cars look standard...

Images from the Arsenal of Democracy

by Charles K. Hyde
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014

While researching his previous study, Arsenal of Democracy: The American Automobile Industry in World War II (Wayne State University Press, 2013), award-winning automotive historian Charles K. Hyde discovered the many remarkable photos that were part of the era’s historical documentation. In Images...

Bluebird CN7

the inside story of Donald Campbell’s last Land Speed Record car

by Donald Stevens
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015

Since the early 1920s the name Bluebird has been synonymous with world speed record breaking on land and water. Driven first by Sir Malcolm Campbell, then his son Donald, and latterly by Donald’s nephew Donald Wales in electric powered vehicles, they have consistently pushed records ever higher.This...

A Complete History of the Toyota Supra

by Tom Blackman
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014

Written by award-winning automotive historian Aaron Severson, with a forward written by Tom Blackman, A Complete History of the Toyota Supra is the definitive history of the iconic Toyota Supra sports coupe. From it's humble beginnings as a North American version of the Toyota Celica XX, to it's...

How to Design Cars Like a Pro

by Tony Lewin, Ryan Borroff
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2010

This comprehensive new edition of How to Design Cars Like a Pro provides an in-depth look at modern automotive design. Interviews with leading automobile designers from Ford, BMW, GM Jaguar, Nissan and others, analyses of past and present trends, studies of individual models and concepts, and much...

PEUGEOT - Guide

by Sloniger
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION (1961): “ …The rampant lion of Peugeot is really no newcomer to America. Modern Peugeot fans tend to date their pleasure from a March day in 1958, when the New York Motor Show opened its doors. A key display, to their way of thinking, was that of Peugeot; these were the first...

Hillman Cars

by Mr James Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018

William Hillman started manufacturing cars in Coventry in 1907 before selling his company to the Rootes Brothers in 1928. Three years later came the Hillman Minx, the first of a line that would endure in multiple forms for nearly half a century, even after the remarkable Imp arrived in 1963 to claim...