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> 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.
Contents
1. Mary Anderson
2. Bertha Benz
3. Nils Bohlin
4. Violette Cordery
5. Tony Crook
6. William Knox D'Arcy
7. Rudolf Diesel
8. John Boyd Dunlop
9. Gilbern
10. Alma Green
11. Donald Healey
12. John D Hertz
13. Major Ivan Hirst
14. Soichiro Honda
15. Leslie Hore-Belisha
16. Leslie Hounsfield
17. Mercédès Adrienne Ramona
Manuela Jellinek
18. Camille Jenatzy
19. Charles F Kettering
20. Frederick W Lanchester
21. Dorothy Levitt
22. Rev. Peter John Lunati
23. Bruce McLaren
24. Garrett Morgan
25. Pat Moss Carlsson
26. Alex Moulton
27. Ben Nevis (Versus Henry
Alexander Jr.)
28. Ransom E. Olds
29. Gerald Palmer
30. Armand Peugeot
31. Dorothée Pullinger
32. Billy Rootes
33. Percy Shaw
34. Alfred P. Sloan
35. Charles E. Sorensen
36. Freelan Oscar Stanley
37. Preston Tucker
38. Felix Wankel
39. Margaret Wilcox
40. Women Workers at Fords of
Dagenham
