This excellent book brings together in one volume some of the greatest designers and engineering brains, that have contributed to Motoring be it Road &/or Track, from virtual inception of the Automobile through to date of publication and describing in text, photo & illustration the features for which they were responsible that are incorporated into the Cars of today and that we take so much for granted. A list of the Elite Eleven have been selected by the Editors (Barker & Harding): with a Chaper as follows: 1. 'The Bollees' by Jacques Ickx. - 2. 'Frederick Lanchester' by Anthony Bird. - 3. 'Henry M. Leland' by Maurice D. Hendry. - 4. 'Hans Ledwinka' by Jerrold Sloniger. - 5. 'Marc Birkigt' by Nichael Sedgwick & Jose Manuel Rodriguez da la Vina. - 6. ' Ferdinand Porsche' by D.B. Tubbs. - 7. 'Harry Miller' by Griffith Borgeson. - 8. 'Vittorio Jano' by Peter Hull & Angela Cherrett. - 9. 'Gabriel Voison' by Rody Kousbrock. - 10. 'Alec Issigonis' by Ronald Barker. & 11.' Colin Chapman' by Philip Turner. The softbound Book is in very good condition apart from a sun-faded spine. The Book runs to 374 pages
