Download or read book Brooklands Giants written by Bill Boddy and published by Haynes Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Woven together into one feast of nostalgia, Bill Boddy's classic books "Brooklands Giants" and "Aero-Engined Racing Cars at Brooklands" have been re-issued in a single combined volume to meet popular interest in the extraordinary machines that roared round the famous banked racing circuit from its inception in 1907 to its demise upon the outbreak of war in 1939. With an enthusiast's delight, the revered author, the long-term Editor of "Motor Sport magazine", describes those adventurous times, the monster cars and their intrepid drivers.
Download or read book Brooklands Giants Brave Men Great Cars written by Bill Boddy and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Brooklands Giants written by Bill Boddy and published by Haynes Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brooklands Giants Bill Boddy. Subtitled: Brave Men and Their Great Cars. Relive an exciting era in motor racing history! Bill Boddy takes you back to the days when these giants of the track, with engines of over 1-liter capacities, raced around the steeply banked tracks at Brooklands from 197 to 1939. Generations thrilled to thesights and sounds of these monsters of the track and the personalities who built and drove them. Hd bd., 8 3/4"x 11", 16 pgs., 116 b&w ill.
Download or read book The Chequered Past written by David Anderson Charters and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the forty-year period between 1951 and 1991, Canadian sports car competition underwent a massive change, transforming itself from an amateur recreational pastime to a commercialized profession and from an individual sport to a spectacle for mass consumption. The Chequered Past is the story of the struggle over power and purpose within the Canadian auto sport that led to this transformation. The first comprehensive history of sports car racing and rallying in Canada, The Chequered Past traces the efforts of the national governing body - the Canadian Auto Sport Clubs (CASC) - to bring its sports car competition up to a 'world class' level, and to manage the consequences of those efforts in the second half of the twentieth century. David Charters traces the social origins of the sport and the major trends that shaped it: professionalism, technological change, rising costs, and the influence of commercial sponsors. Charters argues that while early enthusiasts set the sport on a course toward professionalism that would eventually produce world-class Canadian events and racers, that course would also ultimately change the purpose of the sport: from personal recreation to mass entertainment. As technological innovations drove up the costs of competing at the top ranks, racers were forced to rely on sponsors, who commercialized and ultimately gained control of the sport. The end result, Charters argues, was the marginalization of the amateur competitor and of the CASC itself. Based on extensive research into the CASC's records and dozens of interviews with former competitors and officials, The Chequered Past opens a window into the rich but virtually unknown history of the auto sport, and claims for it a place in Canadian sports history.
Download or read book Off Road Giants Volume 2 written by Andy Westlake and published by David and Charles. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal interviews with some of the greats of off-road motorcycling from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, along with some stunning period photographs that paint a wonderful picture of what motorcycling was about in this golden era.
Download or read book Motor Racing s Strangest Races written by Geoff Tibballs and published by Portico. This book was released on 2016-06-09 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1894, when motor racing’s colourful history began with a bang (and a banger!), drivers, racers and lunatics alike have done many stupid and bizarre things all in the name of motor sport. Author Geoff Tibballs has gathered together this absorbing collection of stories from over a century of motor racing around the world, including the Frenchman who drove 25 miles in reverse, the Grand Prix in which the leading drivers were so far ahead that they stopped for a meal in the pits, the Le Mans 24-hour race won by a car patched up with chewing gum, and the driver who drank six bottles of champagne – virtually one per pit-stop – on the way to winning the Indianapolis 500. The stories in this book are bizarre, fascinating, hilarious, and, most importantly, true. Revised, redesigned and updated for a new generation of petrolheads, this book contains enough extraordinary-but-true tales to drive anyone around the bend. Word count: 45,000
Download or read book Jane Goodall written by Dale Peterson and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2008 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peterson shows clearly and convincingly how truly remarkable Goodall's accomplishments were and how unlikely it is that anyone else could have duplicated them. This biography details how Goodall helped set radically new standards and a new intellectual style in the study of animal behavior.
Download or read book Motor Sport written by William Boddy and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Off Road Giants volume 3 written by Andrew Westlake and published by David and Charles. This book was released on 2022-04-21 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book includes some of the greats of the scrambling world - Dave Bickers, John Banks, Rob Taylor - and others not, perhaps, quite so well known. From the hard-riding Devon farmer John Trible, Gloucester ace Tommy Barker, and Six Days trials star Eric Chilton, to the last ever interview with Olga Kevelos, a true star.
Download or read book Indian and Eastern Motors written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 29, no. 8-37, no. 7 (Aug., 1937-July, 1944) include the section: Aviation.
Download or read book A History of Aviation at Brooklands in 100 Objects written by Nigel Spooner and published by Air World. This book was released on 2024-06-30 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the dawn of the twentieth century mankind had not yet achieved powered flight. The main motive power then was provided by steam engines – heavy, dirty and inefficient. If one wanted to travel ‘over seas’ one had to travel on them. A journey from London to New York, by steam-driven train and ship, took more than 6 days. By the time the same century drew to a close in December 1999, air travel was the normal choice for long journeys. Millions of people every day flew comfortably and safely in pressurised aluminium airliners propelled by simple, clean and efficient gas turbine engines. The same journey from London to New York could be achieved at supersonic speed in less than 6 hours. For much of that century, many of the extraordinary developments that moved aviation from fragile wood and fabric biplanes to supersonic transports were achieved on 330 acres of low-lying former estate farmland in Surrey, England. The estate was called Brooklands. Those marshy acres were transformed from 1907 into the world’s first custom-built motor-racing circuit, then a rapidly developing aerodrome, and finally one of the country’s largest aircraft factories, employing tens of thousands of people. Nearly 19,000 aircraft of many different types were built at Brooklands during nine decades of peace and war. By the 1980s however it was being eclipsed by larger manufacturing sites elsewhere, with longer runways and better communications links; its owner, by then called British Aerospace, finally closed the factory in 1989. This book tells the history of those amazing developments through 100 of the key aircraft, engines, places and other objects that can still be seen, either in or near Brooklands Museum or in other locations around the country. It also highlights the stories of six designers whose inspiring creativity produced aircraft, engines and weapons ranging from Camel to Concorde, Fury to Harrier, Wellington to Viscount, Merlin to Olympus. Between them, Thomas Sopwith, Barnes Wallis, Rex Pierson, Sydney Camm, Stanley Hooker and George Edwards were responsible for much of what was designed, built and flown, not only at Brooklands but elsewhere too. The book is arranged in successive historical episodes but the many links between the objects and the designers should allow readers to follow different paths if they so wish. It is not intended as a technical reference but rather to inspire the reader to seek out the objects and discover more about them.
Download or read book The Horseless Carriage written by Stuart Hylton and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emergence of the motor car transformed the 20th century. This illustrated book examines the earliest history of the motor age, explaining the first attempts to develop a self-propelled road vehicle. Often these early pioneers employed strange and dangerous tactics in their quest for the motor car, but nonetheless by 1914 and the outbreak of World War I, the broad outlines of the modern car were firmly in place. This book investigates the social history of the early motor age, and the love-hate relationship which developed between the motorist and the general public, as well as the politics that lay behind the liberation of motoring from the crippling legislation that existed at the time. Discussing the technical progressions in accessible language, Stuart Hylton considers the development of the cars and the impact of motor racing, as well as revealing many of the characters--both heroes and villains--who shaped the dawn of the motor age.
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Download or read book Specials written by John Bolster and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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