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Please note this book was first published as 'Parry Thomas: Designer-Driver' by B.T. Batsford Limited in 1959...

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John Godfrey Parry Thomas, an engineer of genius and a brilliant racing driver, has been described by another great designer, Mr. Reid Railton, as "by far the greatest original thinker that I have ever met." His best-known production, the Leyland Eight which appeared in 1920, bristled with..

This book has been dedicated to the previous owner by the authorIn the aviation world, the name Shuttleworth is as internationally famous as von Richthofen, Lindbergh, Bader and Trubshaw. This is largely thanks to several well-attended veteran and vintage air displays that are given annually at ..

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Ayrton Senna was the most brilliant Grand Prix driver of his generation; his death was so shocking because he had seemed invulnerable. But Senna was supremely good and supremely dangerous; his belief in his own pre-eminence led to an imperious disregard for the rights of his rivals, and to a series ..

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For 75 years the evolution of racing cars has been matched by the evolution of racings drivers. Each mechanical advance has been accommodated by new intellectual and physical skills in the cockpit. This is Charles Fox’s story of the striving toward unknown limits, from the French Grand Prix in..

Born in Portugal but brought up in England, John Tojeiro is best known for the adoption of one of his sports racing car designs by the AC company to make the AC-Bristol which begat the AC Cobra. During his long career in racing this quiet self-effacing engineer not only produced his own cars but sup..