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THE WILFRED SAGA- AUTOCYCLE ADVENTURES; revised second edition now in stock
I have revised and amended the text of The Wilfred Saga, first published in 2015, it has now been reprinted so the second edition book is now on sale again from our online shop. Read more →
PANHARD & LEVASSOR- Pioneers in Automobile Excellence
This new book covers the history of the Panhard & Levassor company from the very beginning as Périn, Panhard & Cie., a maker of woodworking machinery in the 1870s. By the mid-1880s Panhard & Levassor were making Daimler internal-combustion engines under licence and from there it was but a short step to making complete “motor-cars”, the first commercially-sold Panhard &… Read more →
PEGASO & RICART- From Hispano-Suiza to Pegaso; trucks, buses and sportscars. Vol. 2
This second volume of the Hispano-Suiza and Pegaso books is available now from the Stinkwheel Publishing shop. The book covers the career of Catalan engineer Wifredo Ricart and his early designs and creations of the 1920s and 1930s in Spain- (Ricart y Peréz 1922-26), S.A. Automóviles Ricart (1926-28) and Ricart España (1928-30). Ricart then moved to Italy and was… Read more →
BMC ADO 16 cars, the Austin and Morris 1100/1300 series by Bernard Vermeylen
The BMC ADO 16 (Austin Drawing Office 16) Morris 1100 car was revealed to the international motoring press on 15th August 1962, a larger and worthy companion to the BMC Mini which had been launched in 1959 to worldwide acclaim. Both designs were the work of Alec Issigonis and featured transverse engines with the gearbox in the sump, driving the… Read more →
Hispano-Suiza and Pegaso, Birkigt & Ricart, reprint now available in the shop.
This is the first volume of two and principally covers Hispano-Suiza from 1904 to 1939 from the perspective of Barcelona rather than Bois-Colombes in France. I have used mainly Spanish-language sources and have written about Hispano-Suiza cars, aero-engines, military vehicles, trucks and buses, the satellite Guadalajara factory and its products, racing cars and competition successes. The evolution of the French Bois-Colombes… Read more →