For over fifty years, the Austin FX4 London taxi was the most famous and recognised of the capital's 'black cabs'. And yet the intention was to build it for just ten years, and replace it with something new. However, thanks to the industrial unrest of the 1970s the FX4’s makers and sponsors were obliged to soldier on with it until, in 1997 they were at last able to introduce its replacement, the TX1. In the meantime, both Londoners and visitors to the capital came to love its familiar shape and its practicality, and to associate its timelessness and robust characteristics with the professional approach of its equally famous drivers. This richly-illustrated, full colour book tells the story of the FX4 over those five decades and also features many of the special versions ordered by the rich and famous, details of many versions sold abroad, other bodies built on its chassis and technical specifications of every major model.

Taxi Jubilee: Fifty Years of the Austin FX4 London Taxi

Engineering & Transportation

Munro, Bill

Automotive

Earlswood Press

<p>What is it like for a foreigner to live and work in a village in Northern Italy, and become part of the community? How tough is it to leave your home country and settle in a new one? What do you have to do to be accepted by the people who live in a village by Lake Como, which has existed for over five hundred years? Award-winning artist and stage designer Paul Wright and his partner Nicola found out the hard way, struggling through nightmarish and obstructive Italian bureaucracy, but relishing their life as they worked, played, ate and drank alongside the residents of a beautiful, quiet lakeside village. Enjoy Paul’s dry Liverpool sense of humour as he conveys a vivid word picture of life beside the lake with their colourful and resourceful neighbours.</p>

An Italian Home: Settling by Lake Como

Biographies & Memoirs

Wright PhD Professor and Director of Communication Science The Media School Indiana University Bloo., Paul

Historical

London’s taxis, the capital's famous 'black cabs', or 'British cabs' are as much a part of the capital as the red buses, Big Ben and Buckingham Palace. This book traces the story of the London taxi from 1897, when the capital’s first horseless cab, the electric Bersey, appeared right up to the present day, with the newest zero-emission capable prototypes outlined. The book contains the history of every major model and every known minor make the prototypes that never made it into production, the stories of the people who built, ran and sold taxis, new information about once-famous names in the industry and technical specifications and production figures. Possibly the definitive work on the subject.

London Taxis a Full History

An Italian Village: A Perspective on Life Beside Lake Como

Wright, Paul

Nothing portrays the American taxicab like the classic Checker. Even though it has been out of production, and out of service for many years, film and TV programme makers still want this vehicle to represent taxi transportation for their modern day characters. In this richly illustrated book, Checker aficionados Ben Merkel and Joe Fay guide us through the history of the most famous models, the A-8 to the A-12, taking in many of the limousine and private car variants on the way. Covered too is a brief history of the Checker company and the pre-war and the immediately post war models that predated the A-8. Illustrated with archive shots, posed photographs and on-street images, in New York City, Chicago and many of the towns and cities across the USA and overseas that operated the Checker.

Checker the All-American Taxi

Merkel, Ben

Fay, Joe

London Taxis in Camera

Until the 1970s, four-wheel drive was almost exclusively found on utility vehicles like the Land Rover and the Jeep. And almost nobody considered four-wheel drive, especially full-time four-wheel drive as a major safety feature to be built into any type of car. That is, unless you were tractor millionaire Harry Ferguson or former racing driver Tony Rolt. Ferguson shared the dream of Rolt and his original business partner, fellow racing driver Freddie Dixon by investing in their fledgling company, and giving it his name. The Ferguson Formula, as the product of Harry Ferguson Research Ltd eventually became known, incorporated full-time four-wheel drive, anti-skid braking and a fully automatic transmission. Starting in the days before Harry Ferguson became involved, to 1994, when Ricardo acquired the successor company, FF Developments Ltd, Traction for Sale tells the story of the companiesand the people behind them and covers all the well-known vehicles in the Ferguson Formula saga, including the Jensen FF; the Ferguson-Climax F1; the Ferguson-Novi, Paxton Turbine and Lotus 56 Indianapolis racing cars; the Lancia Delta, Peugeot 205 T16, Metro 6R4, Ford RS200 and Escort Cosworth rally cars; the AMC Eagle and the Schuler and Overfinch Range Rovers. And it covers those models less well known for FFD technology, such as the Chevrolet Safari 4x4, VW Golf Synchro, Ford Scorpio and Sapphire 4x4 and the Jaguar X-Type as well as those for which FFD supplied essential transmission components, such as the McLaren F1 and Jaguar XJ220

Traction for Sale: The Story of Ferguson Formula Four-wheel Drive

Turner, Pat

As a boy, all Northumbrian-born Philip Dixon wanted in life was to be a farmer. In Dairy Cows and Duck Races he tells the story of how he got there, starting work on a farm at the age of fifteen, along the way handling many temperamental bulls, meeting some very “witchy” women, getting married and raising a family, acquiring his own farm and being part of the Round Table team that invented the plastic duck race!

Dairy Cows and Duck Races: The Tale of a Young Farmer

DIXON, PHILIP

Memoirs

<p>Artist Paul Wright and his partner, Nicola moved to the village of Moltrasio, on the shore of Lake Como in northern Italy in 1991, moving to the small, unspoiled village of Argegno in the early 2000s. In this, the follow up to his successful debut book, 'An Italian Home', Paul describes Italian village life, in particular his regular dialogue with a group of men who have retired, mostly from the catering trade, punctuates his adventures beyond the village boundaries for all manner of clients, both reputable and not so reputable in the surrounding area and beyond, to the Italian Riviera.</p>

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Taxi Jubilee: Fifty Years of the Austin FX4 London Taxi

An Italian Home: Settling by Lake Como

London Taxis a Full History

An Italian Village: A Perspective on Life Beside Lake Como

Checker the All-American Taxi

London Taxis in Camera

Traction for Sale: The Story of Ferguson Formula Four-wheel Drive

Dairy Cows and Duck Races: The Tale of a Young Farmer

An Italian Village: A Perspective on Life Beside Lake Como