Automobile Design: Great Designers and Their Work

Edited by Ronald Barker & Anthony Harding

ISBN 10: 0715349058 / ISBN 13: 9780715349052

Published by Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1970

About this Item

First edition (first printing). Hardback. Dust wrapper over black boards with gilt titles to the spine; Measures 10" x 6½" (1.4 kg); pp 374; Index; Includes: Chassis plans; Black & white photographs on individual leaves; Top edge dyed Red; Cutaways; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #202241 ||.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Automobile Design: Great Designers and Their Work
• Publisher: Newton Abbot: David & Charles
• Publication Date: 1970
• ISBN 10: 0715349058
• ISBN 13: 9780715349052
• Binding: Hardback in Dust Wrapper.
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Motor Vehicles

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Synopsis

This excellent book brings together in one volume some of the greatest designers and engineering brains, that have contributed to Motoring be it Road &/or Track, from virtual inception of the Automobile through to date of publication and describing in text, photo & illustration the features for which they were responsible that are incorporated into the Cars of today and that we take so much for granted. A list of the Elite Eleven have been selected by the Editors (Barker & Harding): with a Chaper as follows: 1. 'The Bollees' by Jacques Ickx. - 2. 'Frederick Lanchester' by Anthony Bird. - 3. 'Henry M. Leland' by Maurice D. Hendry. - 4. 'Hans Ledwinka' by Jerrold Sloniger. - 5. 'Marc Birkigt' by Nichael Sedgwick & Jose Manuel Rodriguez da la Vina. - 6. ' Ferdinand Porsche' by D.B. Tubbs. - 7. 'Harry Miller' by Griffith Borgeson. - 8. 'Vittorio Jano' by Peter Hull & Angela Cherrett. - 9. 'Gabriel Voison' by Rody Kousbrock. - 10. 'Alec Issigonis' by Ronald Barker. & 11.' Colin Chapman' by Philip Turner.