A vintage car casebook

Hull, Peter

B.T. Batsford

The first Vauxhall was a single-cylinder runabout built by a marine-engineer firm in London in 1903. In 1905 the frim moved to Luton, where they built bigger three-cylinder and four-cylinder cars, and in 1907 the business waas reformed as Vauxhall Motots. The appointment in 1906 of a brilliant young designer, Laurence Pomeroy, brought a golden age, marked by his four-cylinder side-valve cars, and by competition successes at home and abroad, notably with the Prince Henry and 30-98 models. Twin overhead-camshaft racing cars were built for the 1914 and 1922 Tourist Trophy races and the French Grand Prix of 1914, and the D-type Vauxhall was a famous staff car of the First World War. In 1925 the firm was bought by general motors of the USA, which concentrated on producing inexpensive but good-quality family cars, such as the Vauxhall Cadet of 1931. During the Second World War Vauxhall designed and made the Churchill tank. By the 1970's Vauxhall cars needed a facelift and General Motors were amongst the first to institute the international car, entusting design in Europe to their German subsidiary, Opel. Sales soared in the 1980's and the new designs culminated in the Calibra coupe and the Vauxhall Lotus Carlton saloon of the 1990's.

The Vauxhall (Shire Album)

Engineering & Transportation

Automotive

Shire Pubns

It is largely as a result of the career of William Richard Morris, Viscount Nuffield, that the university city of oxford became one of Britain's foremost industrial cities. William Morris left school at fourteen and because he had shown an aptitude for taking things to pieces and reassembling them he was apprenticed to a bicycle repairer. Within nine months he set up his own cycle business and from then on his rise to become one of Britain's leading industrialists. Though not a great engineer, he was an astute business man and expert mechanic; he saw the need for a small economical car that was of high quality yet could be produced in large numbers. His special talent enabled him to obtain the right parts and to assemble them, and so the first Morris Oxford car appeared in 1913. Production boomed in the 1920s and morris became a millionaire and was made a peer, but he was generous with money and gave away over GBP30,000,000 in his lifetime, much of it to hospitals and other medical causes, in which he had a deep interest. He also financed the establishment of Nuffield College, Oxford, which bears his title. His name ceased to appear on motorcars after 1983 when Morris Motors was part of British Leyland, but the MG (Morris Garages) badge has survived.

Lord Nuffield: An Illustrated Life of William Richard Morris, Viscount Nuffield, 1877-1963 (Shire Library)

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Shire

Book by Hull, Peter, Nigel Arnold-Foster

Seventeen Sports Cars, 1919-1930

Nigel Arnold-Foster

Sports & Outdoors

Bentley Pub

Lord Nuffield: An illustrated life of William Richard Morris, Viscount Nuffield, 1877-1963 (Lifelines ; 39)

Professionals & Academics

Shire Publications [for the Thames and Chilterns Tourist Board]

Alfa Romeo

G.T. Foulis

Glucose syrups (commonly known as corn syrups in North America) are derived from starch sources such as maize, wheat and potatoes. Offering alternative functional properties to sugar as well as economic benefits, glucose syrups are extremely versatile sweeteners, and are widely used in food manufacturing and other industries. They are a key ingredient in confectionery products, beer, soft drinks, sports drinks, jams, sauces and ice creams, as well as in pharmaceuticals and industrial fermentations. 
This book brings together all the relevant information on the manufacture and use of glucose syrups. Drawing on forty years’ experience in the international glucose industry, the author provides a valuable reference for all those involved in the processing and buying of these syrups, and for scientists involved in the manufacture of a full range of food (and some non-food) products in which the syrups are ingredients. The emphasis is on practical information - recipes are included where relevant in the applications chapters, and appendices offer commonly-used calculations and useful data. Food technologists can use the book to make choices about the most suitable glucose syrup to use in a particular application, and also to adapt recipes in order to replace sugar (sucrose) or other ingredients. A glossary of terms reflecting the international terminology of the industry completes the book.

Glucose Syrups: Technology and Applications

Engineering

Wiley/Blackwell

Thoughts That Count: An Inspirational Yearbook

Religion & Spirituality

Independently published

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