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FIFTY YEARS WITH MOTOR CARS

by A.F.C. Hillstead

Published by Faber & Faber. 1st. 1960

Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. The author's life in motoring and motor sport. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. 224 pages including index.

Boards a little rubbed. Foxing and browning to text block and endpapers. Name in ink to front endpaper. A few minor foxspots to b/w plates else contents clean. Price-cut green dustwrapper is strengthened at corners with tape, edge-rubbed and a little grubby.

Stock no. 1825003

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Contents

  • I. In the Beginning
  • II. Mainly About a Donkey and a Horse
  • III. De Dion Days
  • IV. Brooklands
  • V. South American Adventure
  • VI. I Enter the Motor Trade
  • VII. Ware and de Freville
  • VIII. Bentley and Bentley
  • IX. The Post-War D.F.P.
  • X. Bentley Motors
  • XI. Trials and Tribulations
  • XII. I Break Away
  • XIII. The Back-Room Boys
  • XIV. Mainly Personal
  • XV. Pastures New
  • XVI. A Different Prospect
  • XVII. World War II
  • XVIII. That Which Remains

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