1956 Fifty Years of Brooklands

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Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

Highly illustrated with photographs. Includes chapters on: building the track, early records, the first British Grand Prix, Brooklands as an aerodrome, looping the loop, the First World War, new techniques, and the jet age. Brooklands was a 2.767 mile motor racing circuit and aerodrome built near Weybridge in Surrey, England. It opened in 1907 and was the world's first purpose-built 'banked' motor racing circuit as well as one of Britain's first airfields. It became Britain's largest aircraft manufacturing centre by 1918, producing military aircraft such as the Wellington and civil airliners like the Viscount. The circuit hosted its last race in August 1939 and today part of it forms the Brooklands Museum, a major aviation and motoring museum, as well as a venue for vintage car, motorcycle and other transport-related events. With contributions from William Boddy, a British journalist and editor of Motor Sport magazine from 1936-1991, "L'Ancien", Edwin Colston Shepherd, and Charles Gardner, an English industrialist specialising in mechanical aircraft.