Code No: 19113

Price: $105.00

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Author: Ackroyd, John

Published: 2007

Binding: Hardcover

No. Pages: 288

Dimensions: 23 x 29

Illustrations: Many colour photographs plus some period black & white shots

Description: This book is the story of author John Ackroyd and his involvement with aircraft, hovercraft,electric cars and, more importantly, land speed record cars and record balloons. It is a fascinating story and well told, taking the reader from Ackroyd`s birthplace in India to all of the strange and exotic places that have been used for land speed record attempts and visited by record seeking balloonists. A great read that will drag you in.