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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

Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than 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.

Top of spine bumped. Contents fine. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-creased, lightly scuffed to rear panel, previous bookseller's label covering the isbn to rear panel.

ISBN: 9780955010223
Stock no. 1824663

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Contents

  • 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

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