Vintage `History of the Motor Car` Hard Cover Book

This item is secondhand and in good condition with the cover showing wear and tear. 'The History of the Motor Car' is a real milestone in the literature of this fascinating subject. The text is admirable, carefully researched, authoritative, clear and immensely readable, covering this major theme in a comprehensive yet not over-technical way. The lavish and carefully assembled illustrations are superb: over 700 of them of which nearly 500 are in full colour. This unique book tells the whole story of the car. It has absorbing sections on the great inventors and makers, on the excitements of the historic road races, on the famous circuits of the past and the present, on the Grand Prix monsters, on the courageous, extraordinary and even heroic exploits of the motoring pioneers, on the founding of the great industrial giants and on so many other aspects of this wide theme in which so many people are so deeply interested, for the motor car has had an immense effect on fashion, social history, politics, travel and war. All the significant names in the evolving world of the motor car appear in these pages; the greatest have a ring both of history and romance - Darracq and Daimler, Benz, Bentley, and Bugatti, Lanchester, Rolls-Royce, Hispano-Suiza, De Dion, Citroen, Fiat, Ford and so many others; the whole absorbing History being vividly illuminated by its great wealth of splendid and evocative pictures - 708 illustrations: 485 in colour. Published by S.T.I.G. Turin, Italy and distributed solely by New English Library - 375 pages and measures 24,5 x 34 x 3,5 cm. Please view images as part of description. Welcome to combine items.