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Remembering Rootes - Volume 2
Mercian Manuals
NZD106.93By: 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...NZD106.93 -
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Pebble Beach Remembered
NZD139.02By: 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...NZD139.02 -
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The Duckham's Story - A Century of Fighting Friction
Haynes
Now: NZD71.68Was: NZD96.23By: 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...Now: NZD71.68Was: NZD96.23 -
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A - Z British Coachbuilders 1919 - 1960
Herridge & Sons
NZD187.22By: 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...NZD187.22 -
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Cars Of The Soviet Union - The Definitive History
Haynes
NZD213.91By: 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,...NZD213.91 -
Russian Motor Vehicles - The Czarist Period 1784 - 1917
Veloce Publishing
NZD90.93By: Maurice A. Kelly . Whilst many books have appeared concerning Russian aircraft, railway locomotives and naval craft, there has been nothing published outside of Russia concerning the activities of its motor industry. Bearing in mind that by 1937 the...NZD90.93 -
A - Z British Sports and Thoroughbred Motor Cars 1919 - 1939
Herridge & Sons
MSRP: NZD133.73NZD53.44By: Nick Walker . The sports car has always held a warm place in the hearts of British motorists, and even more in the two decades between the wars than now. In those days motoring was still an exciting experience — very exciting for those who had...MSRP: NZD133.73NZD53.44 -
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Italian High - Performance Cars
Mercian Manuals
Now: NZD80.24Was: NZD106.93By: Anthony Pritchard, Keith Davey . Maserati, Lancia, Ferrari and Alfa Romeo — the leading Italian sports cars and names to conjure with — are the main subject of this book. The history and development of these superbly constructed and...Now: NZD80.24Was: NZD106.93 -
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The Motoring Age - The Automobile And Britain 1896 - 1939
NZD64.13By: Peter Thorold . In the forty odd years between 1896 - the year the Locomotives on Highways Act came into effect - and the Second World War, Britain was changed for ever by the automobile. This rich, evocative and entertaining book charts that...NZD64.13 -
Austerity Motoring - From Armistice to the mid-Fifties - Those Were The Days...
Veloce Publishing
NZD80.24By: Malcolm Bobbitt . Following the Armistice the motor industry was rebuilt providing cars for export. New vehicles were largely unavailable for the home market, and fortunate were those people having pre-war cars. Motorists were determined to continue...NZD80.24 -
British Woodies From The 1920s To The 1950s - Those Were The Days...
Veloce Publishing
NZD26.21By: Colin Peck . In 1920s, 30s and 40s Britain, wooden-bodied shooting brakes, estate cars and station wagons were commercial vehicles used in utilitarian roles. They were built in relatively small numbers, often by small, lesser-known commercial body...NZD26.21 -
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Drive On! A Social History Of The Motor Car
Palawan Press
NZD422.57By: L. J. K. Setright . Emphatically not just another book of cars. Some writers have previously studied what the car has done to society, but they have invariably taken a view that has been either geographically too narrow or historically too short...NZD422.57