7 1/2" x 10" with 208 pages with great pictures and illustrations

The Mighty Mercedes

Frostick, Michael

Dalton Watson Ltd.

Alfa Romeo-Milano

Michael Frostick

Original, good dust cover, has some water marks on a couple of front pages. other wise very good basically unread.My personal copy.

Coachwork on Rolls-Royce, 1906-1939

Dalton, Lawrence

There are many enthusiasts who imagine that all coachwork mounted on the Springfield Rolls-Royce was built by Brewster. By the time they have looked at all the 446 illustrations in this book, the author will have impressed upon them the error in their thinking.

Rolls-Royce in America

Engineering & Transportation

De Campi, John Webb

Automotive

Today everybody knows what a Rolls Royce is - a car of ultimate quality, reserved for the richest of the rich. Not everybody knows in the Thirties that there existed a French version high class car - the HISPANO SUIZA. The word means "SPAIN-SWITZERLAND", stemming from the two founder's nationality - namely J. Castro, the Spanish entrepreneur and the Swiss engineer Marc Birkigt.
From the beginning all cars carried an emblem on the cooler incorporating the Spanish and Swiss Coat of Arms. 

1904 Castro and Birkigt formed the company HISPANO SUIZA in Barcelona and produced cars of different sizes which won quickly the reputation of the experts and the nobility who purchased many of their products. It turned out, however, that the French market was much bigger for high class motorcars and consequently a factory was set up in France - near Paris.  A turning point in the development of the company was the outbreak of World War I.  Birkigt designed quickly a novel water cooled aircraft engine which outperformed subsequently all their competitors, particularly when it comes to endurance. The HISPANO SUIZA engine became a legend and the emblem of one of the most famous French pilots, Georges Guynemer - a flying stork - became the emblem of HISPANO SUIZA.  
 
After the war, Birkigt turned back to luxury cars again and created some of the most advanced cars of this time - all ordered individually by the richest of the time, produced fully hand crafted whereby the body of the car was always made by a coach-building company in accordance with the specifications of the customer.  Consequently, there are no two identical cars of HISPANO SUIZA in the world.  Rolls Royce took over some technical features from HISPANO SUIZA under a licence agreement but never reached the performance of HISPANO SUIZA.  H-S was considered to be the top brand among all luxury cars and certainly the most expensive as well.

The Legendary Hispano Suiza

Green, Johnnie

"The Aston Martin Lagonda is a luxury four-door saloon which was built by Aston Martin of Newport Pagnell, England, between 1974 and 1990. A total of 645 were produced. The name was derived from the Lagonda marque that Aston Martin had purchased in 1947. There are two distinct versions, the original, short lived 1974 design based on the Aston Martin V8 and the wedge-shaped Series 2 model introduced in 1976."

Aston Martin and Lagonda

Duesenberg Automobile & Motors Company, Inc. (sometimes referred to as "Duesy") was an American manufacturer of luxury automobiles. Founded in Des Moines, Iowa, United States by brothers August Duesenberg and Frederick Duesenberg, the company's principal place of operations moved to Auburn, Indiana. Duesenberg was active in various forms from 1913 to 1937.In 1913, brothers Frederick and August Duesenberg founded Duesenberg Automobile & Motors Company, Inc. on 915 Grand Avenue in Des Moines, Iowa, to build sports cars. Born in 1876 and 1879 respectively in Kirchheide[1] (Lemgo), Germany, the two brothers were self-taught engineers and built many experimental cars. Duesenberg cars were considered some of the very best cars of the time, and were built entirely by hand. In 1914, Eddie Rickenbacker drove a "Duesy" to finish in 10th place at the Indianapolis 500, and a Duesenberg won the race in 1924, 1925, and 1927. The fledgling company sidestepped into aviation engine manufacturing when Colonel R.C. Bolling and his commission acquired a license to produce the Bugatti U-16 for the U.S. military aviation. The end of World War I stopped this project before it could ever mature.In 1923, drivers at Indianapolis 500 used Duesenbergs as pace cars. In 1921, Jimmy Murphy became the first American to win the French Grand Prix when he drove a Duesenberg to victory at the Le Mans racetrack.

Duesenberg Pursuit of Perf

Roe, Fred

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