Marque & Motor Sport Manufacturers

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‘This is a superbly researched and engagingly written book on one of the most important American automobile racing stories. It will be a primary source on the half century of spectacular Ford racing accomplishments for a long time to come.’ Ken Purdy. This book covers the whole spectrum ..

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Archie Frazer-Nash (always with a hyphen) was an enthusiast as early as 1910. In that year he joined H. R. Godfrey to make cyclecars, hence the GN. Some twelve years later they both left their company, Archie to build Frazer Nashes (without a hyphen) and Godfrey later to build HRGs. What they left b..

The AFN story is a long and fascinating one of triumphs, intrigues and disasters which will make absorbing reading for anyone interested in sports cars, the motor trade or the inner workings of the motor industry. Above all, though, it is a story of people and in particular of the three Aldington br..

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This fabulous book is largely a photographic work. The single page introduction is in English and French. The 13 page chapter that follows it is in French (no translation). The balance of the book (circa 140 pages) is devoted to stunning photography of the 1980s Turbo generation with amazing colour ..

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The life of Georges Roesch, who died in 1969, spanned the entire history of the motor industry. He was a mechanical genius, conceiving in his youth a vision of the ideal motor car, at once efficient, reliable, easy to drive and cheap to manufacture and maintain – as Chief Engineer to the firm of Cle..

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Italian language book. It depicts the memories of Gioachino Colombo, whose long and successful career as a designer of Grand Prix racing cars was not only spent with Ferrari, as portrayed here, but with Bugatti and Maserati too. However, it was his twelve cylinder engine, adventurously designed for ..

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