Description
Author: George Monkhouse, Hardbound, 191 Pages, New Edition, 1948 - Second-hand book in good condition
AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO NEW EDITION
MOTOR Racing with Mercedes-Benz was originally published some ten years ago, as a result of my spending a great deal of time with the Mercedes equipe during the 1937 season. I accompanied them again to a few races in the two following years, and collected more information as well as taking many photographs. This new edition is much enlarged, and with the 1938 and 1939 supplements covers the years 1937-39.
It contains a new and representative collection of pictures, a new chapter "Mercedes-Benz Design Features, 1938-9" a revised chapter on "Motor Racing Photography", "Personalities" and "In Retrospect", as well as the complete Grand Prix results for the years 1934 to 1939, and I hope it will serve as a permanent record of what may well prove to be for many years to come the most interesting period of motor-racing history. I have purposely omitted any political reference and confined myself to the technical and sporting side of motor-racing, and I hope my readers will bear with me.
I cannot close this introduction without mentioning Dick Seaman, who was killed in 1939, and Robert Fellowes, the photographer, who died in 1945. They had been my constant companions at many events abroad, and no man could wish for two better friends. I miss them and the good times we had together.
My special thanks are due to those three stalwarts of The Motor—Laurence Pomeroy, Rodney Walkerly, and Bunny Tubbs, who have given me great help and encouragement, and finally to Constance Mary, my newly-wed wife, without whose advice and active assistance this new edition would never have reached the printers.
GEORGE MONKHOUSE.
LONDON, NOVEMBER 1948.
