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    When Motoring Was Fun: Early Days on the Open Road When Motoring Was Fun: Early Days on the Open Road
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    When Motoring Was Fun - Early Days on the Open Road

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    By: Tom Tyler . Why was the early motorist con- sidered such a figure of fun? This book reveals the reasons why the intrepid car driver was often seen as a sort of highway comic turn. Their vehicles themselves were thought to be transient. Here today and...
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  • Bedford's Motoring Heritage Bedford's Motoring Heritage
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    Bedford's Motoring Heritage

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    By: Richard Wildman, Alan Crawley . This book is a pioneering survey of a previously undocumented part of Bedford history, which has touched the lives of virtually everyone in the town. The rich heritage of pictures and other information about private...
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    British Motoring: The Golden Age British Motoring: The Golden Age
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    British Motoring - The Golden Age

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    By: A. B. Demaus . It is a fortunate fact of history that the art of the photographer, both professional and amateur, had reached some level of proficiency by the time the motor car had become a practicality in the last decade of the nineteenth century...
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    100 Years of Motoring: Twentieth Century in Pictures 100 Years of Motoring: Twentieth Century in Pictures

    100 Years of Motoring - Twentieth Century in Pictures

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    By: Tom Knowles . In 100 years motoring changed the world we live in, as it evolved from an eccentric activity for the wealthy into an essential part of everyone's lives. Along the way it has embedded itself in our memories, the cars of our past...
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  • Magic Motors 1930 Magic Motors 1930
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    Magic Motors 1930

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    By: Brooks T. Brierley . There is no more fascinating automotive story than that of the changes the Depression wrought on the luxury auto-mobile industry in the United States. MAGIC MOTORS 1930 details that story, with the cars as both a business product...
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  • Cars: The Early Years Cars: The Early Years
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    Cars - The Early Years (Getty Images)

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    By: Brian Laban . ISBN: 9783833113536 or 9783829028998 (2nd hand book in very good condition) In January 1886, Karl Benz patented his Motorwagen, the world's first practical automobile, and during that same year he proved that it worked. From Germany,...
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    Remembering Rootes: Volume 1 Remembering Rootes: Volume 1

    Remembering Rootes - Volume 1

    Mercian Manuals

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    By: Rootes Group . Remembering Rootes is a compilation of extracts from magazines published by the company to encourage, in many ways, the interest and enthusiasm for their products. This book will be of interest to the many enthusiasts of the Rootes...
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    Remembering Rootes: Volume 2 Remembering Rootes: Volume 2

    Remembering Rootes - Volume 2

    Mercian Manuals

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    By: Rootes Group . Remembering Rootes is a compilation of extracts from magazines published by the company to encourage in many ways the interest and enthusiasm for their products. This second book will be of interest to the many enthusiasts of the...
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    Pebble Beach Remembered Pebble Beach Remembered

    Pebble Beach Remembered

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    By: Art Evans . Starting in 1950 and ending in 1956, the sports cars at Pebble Beach were the premier road racing events on the U.S. West Coast. This is a scrapbook that reproduces every program and every race report from the Sports Car Club of America...
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    The Duckham's Story: A Century of Fighting Friction The Duckham's Story: A Century of Fighting Friction
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    The Duckham's Story - A Century of Fighting Friction

    Haynes

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    By: Robin Wager . Alexander Duckham was a distinguished chemist, a philanthropist, a patriot, and a compulsive solver of problems. All these traits left their mark on his company, which introduced the first multigrade motor oil to Europe. The famous Q...
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    A - Z British Coachbuilders 1919 - 1960 A - Z British Coachbuilders 1919 - 1960

    A - Z British Coachbuilders 1919 - 1960

    Herridge & Sons

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    By: Nick Walker . Revised and Enlarged Edition When first published in 1997, this book was hailed by reviewers and readers as the first definitive work on coachbuilding on motor car chassis in Britain, and on the coachbuilders who plied this trade. It...
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    Cars Of The Soviet Union: The Definitive History Cars Of The Soviet Union: The Definitive History

    Cars Of The Soviet Union - The Definitive History

    Haynes

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    By: Andy Thompson . When the Communist Party took control of Russia and neighbouring states in October 1917, it inherited a country with virtually no motor industry. While Britain, Germany, America and France already had factories mass-producing cars,...
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