Morgan Winner at Le Mans 1962 the Story of Tok258

Author: Ronnie Price
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781780922195
Category : 24 Heures du Mans (Automobile race)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
In 1962 a small Morgan sports car TOK258 created history by defeating factory teams run by leading international manufacturers in the famous 24 hour race at the Le Mans circuit. The car crossed the finishing line on Sunday 24th June having completed 2256 miles in the twenty four hours from the start time on Saturday afternoon to win the 2 litre GT class. Although privately owned, the car was entered and supported by the Morgan Motor Company and driven by Chris Lawrence and Richard Shepherd-Barron. This new colour 50th anniversary edition of the original book by Ronnie Price, now with racing driver Richard Shepherd-Barron as co-author, covers the concept, preparation, and official testing at the circuit. It gives a blow-by-blow account of the race, with anecdotes, memorabilia, material and photographs only recently made available.

TOK258: Morgan Winner at Le Mans

Author: Ronnie Price
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
ISBN: 1780922205
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 71

Tok258

Author: Ronnie Price
Publisher: Mx Pub
ISBN: 9781904312192
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 108

Book Description
The story of an epic motor-race win in the famous Le Mans 24 hour race. In 1962 a Morgan Plus 4 two-litre car took a class win against international opposition from teams such as Porsche and Lotus. This book describes the car's technical features, the drivers, the race and the character of the sport at that time.

TOK258: Morgan Winner at Le Mans

Author: Ronnie Price
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
ISBN: 1780922213
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 79

Morgan at Le Mans

Author: David Dowse
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780752434889
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A history of Morgan, a quintessentially British car maker, racing at Le Mans.

Morgan Plus 8

Author: Michael Scarlett
Publisher: Haynes Publishing UK
ISBN: 9781844253548
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The fabulous Morgan Plus 8 was introduced in 1968 and continued to be produced at Morgan’s factory in Malvern for 36 years. Assembled by hand using traditional methods, the Plus 8 had a uniquely nostalgic flavor and was, in many ways, the last of the traditional ‘hairy-chested’ British sports cars, combining old-fashioned styling with prodigious power. This beautifully produced book, chronicling the complete story of the Plus 8, will appeal to all sports car fans as well as to Morgan owners and enthusiasts.

French Aeroplanes Before the Great War

Author: Leonard E. Opdycke
Publisher: Schiffer Military History
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296

Book Description
French Aeroplanes Before the Great War is a catalog of the aeroplanes of the nearly 700 French builders who worked before the onset of World War I. Most of these aeroplanes flew some did not some were never even finished but all of them reflect the extraordinary vitality and sense of optimism that powered the aeronautical world before the future of the aeroplane began to become clearer in wartime. If the Wrights had not flown in 1903, one of the early French builders would very quickly have won the laurels for the first flight. Some of the machines appear in these pages probably for the first time in print; others are rarely seen. This collection serves as a kind of super Exposition Internationale de Locomotion Arienne; readers are invited to enter the Grand Palais, as they might have in 1908 or 1909, to enjoy these marvelous aircraft.

Forward

Author: John Huston
Publisher: Octane Press LLC
ISBN: 9781937747909
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Over a period of nearly two months, John and Tyler skied more than 500 miles, hauling sleds that contained everything they needed to survive. They maneuvered their 300-pound loads through punishing rubble fields and swam across stretches of open water.

Guy Martin

Author: Stephen Davison
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780856409981
Category : Motorcycle racing
Languages : en
Pages : 144

Book Description
"Leading road racing photographer Stephen Davison has been photographing Guy Martin for all of his racing career - from his very first race in Scarborough in 2003 - and has amassed an archive of brilliant photographs, including great action shots, crashes, closeups and unguarded moments. Edgy, extreme, intimate and quirky, Davison's photographs brilliantly capture both Martin's focus and determination, as well as his goofy and gauche side. Davison at his brilliant best."--

The Arsenal of Democracy

Author: Albert J. Baime
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547719280
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 389

Book Description
Chronicles Detroit's dramatic transition from an automobile manufacturing center to a highly efficient producer of World War II airplanes, citing the essential role of Edsel Ford's rebellion against his father, Henry Ford.