Name: ECURIE ECOSSE: DAVID MURRAY AND THE LEGENDARY SCOTTISH MOTOR RACING TEAM
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ECURIE ECOSSE: DAVID MURRAY AND THE LEGENDARY SCOTTISH MOTOR RACING TEAM

by Eric Dymock

Published by Pj Publishing Ltd. 1st. 2007

Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper. Ecurie Ecosse is recognised worldwide as one of the most successful private sports car racing teams ever. This book explores the reasons, both probable and possible, not only for the team's rise to prominence, but also its inexorable decline. Large format. Blue boards, silver title to spine. Colour and b/w photos. 271 pages.

Spine and corners bumped, slight dent to lower edge of front cover. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is edge creased with tears, large tear to rear panel repaired with tape on verso. Slight browning to wrapper.

ISBN: 9780955010223
Stock no. 1327039

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Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Chapter One A Preface
Chapter Two At the High Court in Edinburgh
Chapter Three The Brooklands background
Chapter Four David Murray
Chapter Five Wilkie Wilkinson
Chapter Six David Murray - grand prix driver
Chapter Seven - Ecurie Shoestring to Ecurie Ecosse - setting the stage
Chapter Eight - Ecurie Ecosse goes racing
Chapter Nine - Major Thompson
Chapter Ten - Ian Stewart, Bill Dobson, Sir James Scott-Douglas
Chapter Eleven - A C-type joins the team
Chapter Twelve - The 1953 programme
Chapter Thirteen - Racing the C-type, Nurburgring adventures - and into 1954
Chapter Fourteen - From C-type to D-type
Chapter Fifteen - Moment of glory, 1956
Chapter Sixteen - Le Mans 1957
Chapter Seventeen - Courting controversy - and the Race of Two Worlds
Chapter Eighteen - Listers and Tojeiros join the D-types
Chapter Nineteen - 1960: Le Mans, the transporter, and the coming of the mid-engine sports car
Chapter Twenty - Wilkie departs, and the downward trail
Chapter Twenty-one Per Adua ad Bankruptcy
Chapter Twenty-two The defection and the obituaries
Appendix One Ecurie Ecosse drivers 1952-1957
Appendix Two Cars raced by Ecurie Ecosse 1952-1967
Appendix Three Documents relating to David Murray's financial affairs
Index General; registration number; chassis number