Brooklands: The Complete Motor Racing History

Boddy MBE, William B.

ISBN 10: 1899870563 / ISBN 13: 9781899870561

Published by Motor Racing Publications Ltd, 2001

About this Item

Glossy green pictorial dust-jacket, a very light curve along the top edge and the spine lightly sunned. Book bound in green cloth with gilt titles, unblemished. Contents unmarked, appearing unused, as new.

Seller Inventory # 039440

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Brooklands: The Complete Motor Racing History
• Publisher: Motor Racing Publications Ltd
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1899870563
• ISBN 13: 9781899870561
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Nr Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Automobiles

About this title

Synopsis

It took one visit as a tyke in the '20s to the Brooklands Motor Course for William Boddy to get hooked. It had been built in 1907 by a wealthy landowner and featured motor racing and motor-industry testing through to 1939, when World War II interrupted its glorious history and brought the sport - and the course - to a halt. For over 50 years, Boddy would edit the magazine Motor Sport, forever keeping Brooklands and racing in his heart. So moved by the motor course, Boddy wrote its definitive history that had been long out of print, until now.

About the Author

Bill Boddy was editor of MotorSport from 1934 for some 50 years. He first went to Brooklands Track in 1927 and was with Brooklands Track & Air for two and half years from 1931. Bill wrote five books about it, the last going to three editions and now in new MRP history and he also wrote for aviation magazines. He was employed by MAP at Farnborough for the duration of WW2, on Air Publications, and is still a regular contributor to MotorSport as its founder editor.