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Books on Speed Records Title Editor Year ISBN CHW Roles and Associates Ltd. Just for the Record, Thrust 2 1984 Kingston upon Thames The Land Speed Record 1926-1939 (magazine Transport Source Books, Ipswich 1997 1858479509 compilation) The Land Speed Record 1947-1997 (magazine Transport Source Books, Ipswich 1997 compilation) Seaplanes and Flying Boats The Schneider Trophy Races Speed Boat Kings Arnold Powers Inc. 1939 The American Hot Rod MBI Publishing, Osceola, WI USA 1995 0879389826 Twenty Five Years at Brooklands The Brooklands Society 1995 Transport Bookman Publications, Rosemeyer: A New Biography 1986 085184060 Isleworth Victory over the Wind - A History of the Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York 1983 0442213018 Absolute World Air Speed Record Racing Cars - Seventy Years of Record Crescent Books 1971 Breaking Parry Thomas and Pendine The Stanley Steam Cars, 1897-1907 Profile Publications Ltd. Leatherhead 1967 Full Throttle American Automobile Racing Patrick Stephens Ltd. Cambridge 1974 Foulis Haynes Publishing Sparkford Aero-Engined Racing Cars at Brooklands 1992 0854298673 nr. Yeovil Foulis Haynes Publishing Sparkford Brooklands Giants 1995 0854299602 nr. Yeovil The 1933, 24-litre Napier Railton Profile Publications Ltd. Leatherhead 1966 The Chitty-Bang-Bangs Profile Publications Ltd. Leatherhead 1966 The History of Brooklands Motor Course Grenville Publishing, London 1957/1979 Pagina 1 Books on Speed Records Title Editor Year ISBN The Story of Brooklands Vol I Grenville Publishing, London 1948 The Story of Brooklands Vol II Grenville Publishing, London 1949 The Story of Brooklands Vol III Grenville Publishing, London 1950 The World's Land Speed Record Phoenix House Ltd., London 1964 The World's Land Speed Record Motor Racing, London 1951/1964 The Miller Straight-Eight Profile Publications Ltd. Leatherhead 1967 Patrick Stephens, Wellingborough The World's Fastest Aircraft 1990 (GB) Abarth Osprey Publishing Ltd., London 1993 International Classic Cars Spirit of America: Winning the World's Land Henry Regnery Company, Chicago 1971 Speed Record Alexander Graham Bell and the Conquest of Gollancz 1973 Solitude Nine Lives Plus Unlimited Hydroplane Hall of Fame Racing Unlimited 1984 Museum Look Inside - Cross-section Record Breakers Dorling Kindersley, London, New and Other Speed Machines (Children's book) 1995 0751353329 York, Stuttgart GB edition Look Inside - Cross-section Record Breakers Dorling Kindersley, London, New and Other Speed Machines (Children's book) 1995 078940320X York, Stuttgart US edition Book of Motors Into the Water Barrier Odhams 1955 Malcolm Campbell - The Man as I Knew Him Hutchinson, London 1955 Bluebirds - The Story of the Campbell Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd., London 1988 0283996110 Dynasty An Autobiography Hutchinson, London 1934 Pagina 2 Books on Speed Records Title Editor Year ISBN The Romance of Motor Racing Hutchinson, London 1937 My Thirty Years of Speed Hutchinson, London 1935 Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd., Speed on Wheels 1949 London Speed Through the Ages The Roads & The Problems of Their Safety The Romantic Story of Motor Racing Thunder Ahead Book of Famous Motorists Blackie & Sons 1937 Ignition University Press, New Brunswick 1972 The Land Speed Record 1898-1919 (SC) Brooklands Books 2000 The Land Speed Record 1898-1999 (HC) Brooklands Books 2000 1855205181 The Land Speed Record 1920-1929 (SC) Brooklands Books 2000 The Land Speed Record 1930-1939 (SC) Brooklands Books 2000 The Land Speed Record 1940-1962 (SC) Brooklands Books 2000 The Land Speed Record 1963-1999 (SC) Brooklands Books 2000 Die Schnellsten Maenner am Lenkrad Motorbuch, Stuttgart Les Hommes les plus rapide sur terre Presses de la Cite, Paris 1967 The Fastest Men on Earth Herbert Jenkins Ltd., London 1964 The Racing Car B.T. Bastford Ltd., London 1962 Historique de la Course Automobile 1894-1978 Editions Lariviere, Paris 1982 Pagina 3 Books on Speed Records Title Editor Year ISBN Les Chasseurs de Temps 1994 2840450518 Yachting Memories Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York 1952 Adventure at Speed MacMillan 1974 The John Cobb Story G.T. Foulis & Co. Ltd., London 1953 A Quest for Speed at Sea Hutchinson, London 1972 Power & Speed Temple Press The Miller Dynasty Barnes Publishing Inc., New York 1981 Aviation Ghosts: South by Southeast 165 Pen & Sword, London 1998 0850526205 Degrees Motor Boat Facts and Feats Power Boat Speed - Racing and Record Conway Maritime Press Ltd., London 1988 085177427X Breaking 1897 to the Present The World Water Speed Record B.T. Batsford, London 1976 0713430656 Leader of the Skies (Rolls Royce) The Land Speed Record 1898-1999 Brooklands Books 2000 All Color World of Cars Like Father Like Son Clifton, Brighton (GB) 1969 They Call it Courage: The Story of the Segrave Trophy Flat Out Flat Out Press 1994 0936892188 Hot Rodder! From Lakes to Street Flat Out Press 1993 0936892161 An Engineer of Sorts Sound Barrier 1953 Pagina 4 Books on Speed Records Title Editor Year ISBN Test Pilot Wereldsnelheidsrecord Peters, Deventer (NL) 1968 My Motoring Reminiscences E.P. Publishing Ltd. 1972 K L G from Cars to Concorde Rocket Powered Cars ("Super Prentice Hall, New Jersey, N.Y. 1987 Charged"series) The Fastest Man Alive 1958/1990 Fastest on Earth John Miles, London 1939 Flat Out Vincent Spalding Publishing Co. 1933/1976 Safety Last Vincent Spalding Publishing Co. 1975 Speed Speed of Wind Motor Racing and Record Breaking B.T. Batsford, London 1935 Speed on Salt Floyd Clymer, Los Angeles 1939/1947 Lion Book of Speed Speedboat Sail and Power Peter Davies 1936 World Speed Record Aircraft Busch Stadler Verlagsgesellschaft Charles Scribner's Sons, NY / B.T. The Book of Speed 1934/1935 Batsford Ltd., London Goodwood Brooklands - A Pictorial History Pagina 5 Books on Speed Records Title Editor Year ISBN Magic M.P.H. Motor Racing Publications Croydon 1951 At the Wheel - Ashore and Afloat G.T. Foulis & Co. Ltd., London 1934 Speed Achievements Land, Sea and Air: A Century of Conquest Racing to Win: The Salt Flats Troll Associates 1976 Classic Speedboats 1916-1939 Motorbooks International 1998 0760304645 Classic Speedboats 1945-1962 Motorbooks International 2000 0760309167 Encyclopedia of Aero Engines Record Breakers - Air 1977 Record Breakers - Land 1977 Drive it! The Complete Book of British Drag Haynes Publishing Group, Sparkford 1981 Racing nr. Yeovil The Manikin Book of Sports on Wheels The Racing Sunbeams Land Speed Racing (motorcycles)(Children's Capstone Press 2000 Book) The Fastest Men On Earth - 100 Years Of The Sutton Publishing Ltd., Stroud 1999 0750922036 Land Speed Record The Land Speed Record, to the Sound Barrier Foulis Haynes Publishing Group 1986 0854294996 and Beyond Sparkford nr. Yeovil The World's Fastest Cars Trend Books, Los Angeles 1955 BP Book of the Racing Campbells Stanley Paul, London 1960 First and Fastest 1963 The Fastest Men in the World on Wheels World Publishing Co., New York 1971 Automobile Aerodynamics: Theory and Practice for Road and Track Pagina 6 Books on Speed Records Title Editor Year ISBN Rocket Powered Racing Vehicles Using 1974 Hydrogen Peroxide Of 90% Strength Thompson Trophy Aircraft Motorbooks International 1989/1993 Vitesse Illimitee - L'Histoire du record absolu Editions Retroviseur, Paris 1995 2840780429 de vitesse de 1898 a nos jours Kitty O'Neil - Daredevil Woman Harvey House, NY 1980 The Golden Arrow and the World's Speed The Institution of Automobile Record Engineers Proceedings 1929-1930 De Snelste Auto's Ter Wereld Uitgeverij Helmond 1978 Falken Verlag GmbH, Niedernhausen / Die Schnellsten Autos der Welt 1977 Ts Falken Verlag GmbH, Niedernhausen / Die Schnellsten Motorboote der Welt 1979 Ts Die Schnellsten Trucks der Welt - Dieselpower Heel Verlag, Koenigswinter 2000 ohne Limit Die Super Trucks der Welt - Dieselpower ohne Bassermann, Niedernhausen 1997 Limit Falken Verlag GmbH, Niedernhausen / Raketen auf Raedern 1981 Ts Falken Verlag GmbH, Niedernhausen / Die Schnellsten Motorraeder der Welt 1978 Ts 0809020781 + Cars Against The Clock Henry Z. Walck Inc., New York 1971 0809829169 The Salt of the Earth Clymer Motors, Los Angeles 1945 100 Years of the World's Land Speed Record Malvern House Publications, London 1998 1900482118 1898-1998 part 1 100 Years of the World's Land Speed Record Malvern House Publications, London 1999 1900482134 1898-1998 part 2 Automobil-Weltrekorde -Technische Oldenbourg + VDI, Muenchen 1981 Chronologie 1896-1981 Die Schnellsten Jets der Welt Aviatic Verlag 1994 Die Schnellsten Propellerflugzeuge der Welt Aviatic Verlag 1996 Verlag W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Weltrekord-fahrzeuge 1898 bis Heute 1984 Sturrgatt Pagina 7 Books on Speed Records Title Editor Year ISBN Weltrekord-Flugzeuge: Die Schnellsten Flugzeuge der Welt von 1906 bis heute Aviatic Verlag 1999 3925505482 (Doppelband) World Speed Record Aircraft Conway Maritime Press Ltd., London 1990 0851778445 Rutledge, London / New York / Art Arfons: Fastest Man on Wheels 1965 Toronto With Campbell at Coniston Griffin & Griffin, London 1967/1990 0952984407 Donald Campbell, CBE Land Speed Record Breakers Lerner, Minneapolis 1981 Bonneville Salt Flats Museum of British Road Transport, Thrust 2, The World Land Speed Record Story 1987 Coventry Brave Deeds - picture book Ward Lock Ltd. Saunders and SARO Modern Motor Boats Bond/Parkhurst Books, Newport The Mercedes Benz Racing Cars 1971 Beach The World's Fastest Motorcycles Children's Press 1994 0516352083 Record Breakers of the Land Troddy Books (Grange Books) Fifty Years with the Speed Kings Stanley Paul, London 1961 The X-Planes - X1 to X31 1982 The X-Planes - X1
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