Bob Chamberlain was the consummate engineer. Never considering his lack of tertiary training to be an impediment, he was one of those "seat of the pants" engineers in whom innate ability, combined with supreme self-belief, produced some astounding results. Over his 84 years, he energetically pursued..
The automobile of today owes much to what happened on a small island between 1904 and 1922. In an era when cars were regarded as noisy monstrosities of little value except as amusement for the rich, car tech¬nology was in its infancy and needed a challenge to encourage advancement, pressure to e..
The great British special building era began in the years after the First World War when motor racing was split into two camps. On the one hand, Brooklands provided glamour, spectacle and celebrity drivers. In contrast was the busy sprint and hill climb scene supported by amateur enthusiasts from al..
This comprehensive history of the famous Brooklands Motor Course at Weybridge in Surrey covers the period 1906 to 1940, when the Track was in active use as a venue for motor-racing, testing and record-breaking. This book represents four years' painstaking research on the part of an author and motor-..
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