Marque & Motor Sport Manufacturers

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Few men have had so profound an effect on the world's motor industry as Sir William Lyons and fewer still have left their own personal mark so clearly embedded in their pro-ducts. From the Austin Swallow to the XJ12, his cars have been HIS cars. Here now is an opportunity to appraise and appreciate ..

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This book has been dedicated to the previous owner..

The Legendary 2.3 — a long-awaited history of the remarkable 8c2300 Alfa Romeo sports and racing cars produced from 1931 to 1934. The Legendary 2.3 chronicles the colourful individual histories of almost all of the 188 cars produced in the 8c2300 series. The Legendary 2.3 has something for all car e..

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Colin Chapman's Lotus Elite is considered by many to be the most beautiful design ever to emerge from a British car-maker. It was also extremely advanced for 1957, and its then unique fibreglass monocoque construction and Coventry Climax engines, set new standards in design and performance. As at ho..

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When Cecil Kimber began tuning and modifying Morris cars in the early 'twenties, he little realised that these embryonic M.G. Cars would establish a name which, in the course of time, was to be¬come that of Britain's best known sports-car. Mike Allison, a keen M.G. Enthu¬siast, very involved in the ..

A fascinating and well written book that covers the White, then Silver Race Cars of the Pioneer Period through to their last total reign of supremacy at the highest level in the mid-fifties. Each and every car featured in this book was 'State of the Art' in its time. Through tracing the hist..

One might almost say that the Daimler-Benz company inven¬ted motor cars, as its founder members Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz independently pro¬duced internal combustion engined vehicles as early as 1886. It was in 1901 that Count Jellinek, the Austro-Hungarian Consul-General at Nice, took ..