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BMW E30 - The Complete Story by James Taylor
Category: Transport
The E30 3 Series was the car that defined BMW more than any other during the 1980s, and it has gone on to become a much-loved modern classic. This book tells the full story of the cars from the time in 1976 when work first began on the successor to the original E21 3 Series. This new book features the ...Show more
British Leyland - The Cars, 1968-1986 by James Taylor
Category: Transport
In 1968, British Leyland brought together most of Britain's motor manufacturers, with the intention of creating a robust unified group that could equal the strength of the big European conglomerates. But this was not to be. There have been many books about the politics and the business activities of B ...Show more
Family Cars of the 1960s by Taylor James
Category: Transport | Series: Britain's Heritage Ser.
The 1960s saw car ownership take off in Britain, as the newly opened motorways created new opportunities for the family to travel on holiday, to see distant relatives, or simply for work. But this was also a period of great change in the motor industry, and one from which it would not emerge unscathed ...Show more
Hillman Cars by James Taylor
Category: Transport | Series: Shire Library
William Hillman started manufacturing cars in Coventry in 1907 before selling his company to the Rootes Brothers in 1928. Three years later came the Hillman Minx, the first of a line that would endure in multiple forms for nearly half a century, even after the remarkable Imp arrived in 1963 to claim a s ...Show more
Jaguar MKs 1 and 2, S-Type and 420 by James Taylor
Category: Transport
This is a history of all four generations of compact Jaguar, and their Daimler equivalents, tracing the gradual development of Sir William Lyons' original idea over a period between 1955 and 1969. From the powerful, luxury MK 1 and 2 cars to the 4.2-litre 420, this book covers design, development and st ...Show more
Jaguar XJ-S - The Complete Story by James Taylor
Category: Transport
James Taylor remembers very well the disappointment among his pretrol-head friends when the XJ-S was announced in 1975. It was not a replacement for the legendary E-type; its colours were uninspired; and its interior was drab. All credit, then, to those people at Jaguar who truly believed in the car and ...Show more
Living on Water - Contemporary houses framed by water by Francois-Luc Giraldeau (ed.); James Taylor-Foster (text)
Category: Architecture | Design | Reading Level: very good
A sumptuous survey of houses built with a strong connection to the oceans, lakes, rivers, and pools around them Living on Water showcases the finest examples of residential architecture that have one thing in common - their special relationship to that most essential of elements: water. These homes hav ...Show more
Mercedes-Benz W114 and W115 - The Complete Story by James Taylor
Category: Transport
The W114 and W115 models were enormously successful for Mercedes-Benz, and their sales in nine years of production between 1967 and 1976 almost equalled the total of all Mercedes passenger models built in the 23 years between 1945 and the time of their introduction in 1968. There were many reasons for ...Show more
Picturing the Pacific: Joseph Banks and the Shipboard Artists of Cook and Flinders by James Taylor
Category: History
For over 50 years between the 1760s and the early 19th century, the pioneers who sailed from Europe to explore the Pacific brought back glimpses of a new world in the form of oil paintings, watercolors and drawings--a sensational view of a part of the world few would ever see. Today these works represe ...Show more
Rover SDI - The Full Story 1976-1986 by James Taylor
Category: Transport
David Bache's superbly styled hatchback gave Rover a highly distinctive large executive-class car in the 1970s and 1980s, and a successful motorsport programme in the first half of the 1980s only added to its desirability. The original carburetted V8 and 6-cylinder petrol models were supplemented by inj ...Show more
The Mercedes-Benz Ponton and 190SL - The Complete Story by James Taylor
Category: Transport
Voyage of the Beagle by James Taylor
Category: History
Brings together a range of topics on the great voyages of discovery made by the Beagle. Illustrated with artworks, sketches and plans, the author has woven together the various strands of the Beagle story such as, the career history of the vessel, including designs and plans, biographies on Darwin and C ...Show more
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