TON UP! A CELEBRATION OF A HUNDRED YEARS OF THE MIDLAND AUTOMOBILE CLUB
Written by Jonathan Toulmin, Pat Toulmin
Published by Midland Automobile Club
in 2001
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TON UP! A CELEBRATION OF A HUNDRED YEARS OF THE MIDLAND AUTOMOBILE CLUB
Written by Jonathan Toulmin, Pat Toulmin.
Stock no. 2140279
1st.
2001.
Hardback.
Large format.
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
The Midland Automobile Club was formed just ten days into the twentieth century, and just a few days before the death of Queen Victoria. It was founded by motoring enthusiasts and pioneers of the British Motor Industry. Possibly the Oldest motor sporting club in the UK. Hill Climbs - Races - Rallies - Trials - Sprints. Large format. Blue glazed pictorial boards. Colour and b/w photos. 240 pages. A lovely, clean copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed to rear panel.
TON UP! A CELEBRATION OF A HUNDRED YEARS OF THE MIDLAND AUTOMOBILE CLUB
Written by Jonathan Toulmin, Pat Toulmin.
Stock no. 1204298
1st.
2001.
Hardback.
Large format.
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
The Midland Automobile Club was formed just ten days into the twentieth century, and just a few days before the death of Queen Victoria. It was founded by motoring enthusiasts and pioneers of the British Motor Industry. Possibly the Oldest motor sporting club in the UK. Hill Climbs - Races - Rallies - Trials - Sprints. Large format. Blue glazed pictorial boards. Colour and b/w photos. 240 pages. Minor foxing to top edge of text block. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper title to spine has fadded from yellow to white.
Front cover
Contents
- 1 In the beginning
- 2 The Great Balloon Chase
- 3 Shelsey Walsh - Capacity Counts!
- 4 Trials & Tribulations
- 5 The Roaring Twenties
- 6 The Thundering Thirties
- 7 Revival
- 8 Penned Personally:
- Halcyon Days
- A Decade and a half of records
- Shelsley smiles
- Now and Then
- 9 Championship Hill Climbing
- 10 Modern Times at Shelsley
- 11 On the level
- 12 A Dirty week-end
- 13 Sporting Fiddles
- 14 All roads lead to Wales
- 15 Racing against the tide
- 16 Madresfield
- 17 The BRM Connection
- 18 Just Touring
- 19 A Secretary's lot
- 20 The Founding Fathers:
- - Herbert Austin
- - Lanchester Bros.
- - John Siddeley
- - other pioneers
- 21 In the News
- 22 The beginning and the end
- Appendices:
- 1. Founder Members
- 2. Principal Officers of the Club and terms of duty
- 3. List of Principal events and overall winners
- 4. List of MAC records (as at 31st December 2000)
- 5. The Junor Hill Climb and Sprint Championship
- 6. Social and Technical meetings
- Index of names