Code No: 17768

Price: $89.95

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Author: Burgess-Wise, David

Published: 2006

Binding: Hardcover

No. Pages: 208

Dimensions: 22 x 29

Illustrations: An amazing mix of modern colour and period black & white photos, engravings and technical drawings

Description: This book by highly respected motoring historian David Burgess-Wise is a great read. It is a totally painless history of the automobile up to the end of the veteran period as defined by the British Veteran Car Club, December 31, 1904. It takes us back to the earliest steam carriages that chuffed around the roads long before the petrol powered motor car was invented and leads us by a series of entertaining and informative anecdotes about key vehicles to the end of the book, where a 1905 Star is used to explain why the end of 1904 was such a watershed in motor vehicle design. It is a must buy for anyone interested in the early history of self-propelled vehicles.