Take Risk! (Signed 1st Edition)

Richard Noble

ISBN 10: 191050551X / ISBN 13: 9781910505519

Published by Evro, 2020

About this Item

Pictoral boards. Clean Pages. Firm unread binding. Signed, inscribed and dated by the author to a bookplate fixed to the front end paper. Professional seller. All pictures are of the actual book that is for sale. Books are dispatched in cardboard packaging.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Take Risk! (Signed 1st Edition)
• Publisher: Evro
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 191050551X
• ISBN 13: 9781910505519
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed By Author

About this title

Synopsis

Richard Noble’s first attempt to build a record car, Thrust1, ended in a high-speed crash and the sale of the wreckage to a scrapyard. Next came the roller coaster ride of Thrust2, which was developed to attack the World Land Speed Record at Bonneville with Noble at its controls; after innumerable setbacks, including sponsor withdrawals, delays and a rebuild after a 250 mph crash, success was finally achieved with a new record of 633 mph in 1983 at Black Rock Desert in Nevada. Following that, Noble established the UK-based ARV Aircraft company to create an innovative and beautiful metal airplane with safe forward-swept wings and a special Hewland engine, all achieved in 13 months from start-up with no design and little money.

About the Author

David Dixon was born in Dublin in 1933 and spent his early working life competing in motorcycle events of every sort. He moved to London to write for The MotorCycle, at the time the world's leading motorcycle weekly. In the mid-1980s Dixon joined Murray Evans Associates, to work on motorcycle PR, becoming a spokesman for the industry and forming the All Party Parliamentary Motorcycle Group and the Theft Action Group. David is still an active member of the motorcycle fraternity and enjoys writing, painting, music, bird-watching and outings on his 1950 500T Norton.