Mike Hawthorn was born in 1929 in a small south Yorkshire town, the son of an engineer whose passion happened to be motorcycles and motor sport. The family moved soon afterwards to Farnham in Surrey, so that Leslie Hawthorn could be near the Brooklands race circuit. It was not long before his son Jo..
This is the first ever book to concentrate on sporting Rileys, to the exclusion of all others, which allows full and knowledgeable analysis of each range to be presented. Coverage of the Red winger, Brooklands Nine, Imp, MPH and Sprite models is complete. The book contains the facts and figures, and..
This is the signed and numbered limited edition. Suddenly in 1937, Captain George Eyston's name attracted world wide attention as it was entered upon the hallowed scroll of names of those who had broken the World's Land Speed Record in Thunderbolt; and in the following year, he achieved a further tw..
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..
Works Wonders is a top competition manager's nostalgic view of a golden age of motorsport, the Fifties and Sixties. It was a time when you could buy a car from a manufacturer's catalogue, take it to a tuning shop, stick a set of numbers on the side and go racing or rallying with it. If you were good..
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