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40 Motoring Heroes: Pioneers, Inventors, Mavericks, and Game Changers by Rod Ashley at Abbey's Bookshop,
40 Motoring Heroes: Pioneers, Inventors, Mavericks, and Game Changers
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Rod Ashley

40 Motoring Heroes

Pioneers, Inventors, Mavericks, and Game Changers

Rod Ashley

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English
Bennion Kearny Limited
18 March 2026
History of engineering & technology; Road & motor vehicles: general interest
How did an English pub inspire a legendary road safety feature? Which F1 driver had to wear leg braces as a young boy in hospital, yet started his own winning team? What prompted a young woman from Alabama to invent the windscreen wiper? Who was the ""bloody fool"" from Yorkshire who master-minded the VW Beetle's rise from the ashes of the Second World War?
40 Motoring Heroes offers a fact-filled, illustrated insight into motoring history, not only for petrol heads and motoring enthusiasts, but anyone with a passion for fascinating people. The little-known men and women featured include inventors, innovators, engineers, financiers, and others at the sharp end of automotive and social history. Their stories shine a light on ingenuity, determination, fights against prejudice, and even bravery, self-sacrifice and destitution.

Of course, being a motoring hero does not equate with sainthood or even likeability; a fair number of the book's subjects demonstrated unpleasant human qualities but we acknowledge their professional achievements. Not all made fortunes out of their ideas, but their ideas added to the wealth of our enjoyment of motoring.

Compelling, intriguing and full of surprise, the must-read biographies in 40 Motoring Heroes showcase the struggles, adversity and perseverance of these motoring marvels.

This book was originally published in the United Kingdom.
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Imprint:   Bennion Kearny Limited
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 15mm
Weight:   395g
ISBN:   9781915855473
ISBN 10:   1915855470
Pages:   216
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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