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RotaryBri · Joined: 20 Dec 2007 Posts: 465 Location: Warwick

Over many years I have built up a library of over 250 motoring books covering car, motorcycle, truck and bus manufacturers history plus industry leaders and sportsmen etc.

I now have to downsize due to a house move so if any one is after a particular book please pm me as I may well have what you are looking for. I have started to put some on eBay but I would prefer to let some go at reasonable prices to keen enthusiasts on here.

I will be keeping my signed first editions.
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Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22438 Location: UK

I've quite a few old books dotted about, I do sometimes think of thinning things down a bit too, but I don't see it happening.

By all means mention a few titles that you're disposing of.

RJ
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roverdriver · Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2019 7:31 am Post subject:

I have been culling my library of late, but one book in particular will remain no matter what. It is the Georgano 'Complete Encyclopedia' published 1968/9. We were recently married then and my wife carefully saved up to buy it for me as a birthday present. Over the years it has proved to be an excellent resource.
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alanb · Joined: 10 Sep 2012 Posts: 516 Location: Berkshire.

I still have a full set of "on four wheels" the magazine you collected weekly and put in binders that built into a 10 set encyclopaedia of motoring
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consul 57 · Joined: 09 Nov 2017 Posts: 487 Location: somerset

yes i have lots of them especialy military vehicle ones

BigJohn · Joined: 01 Jan 2011 Posts: 954 Location: Wem, Shropshire

I had a wall of banana boxes full of books, no one wanted over 1000 books, mainly works wsm's as a job lot. I sold four boxes, then I donated the rest to the British Commercial Vehicle Museum at Leyland. They will archive some, use some, and sell the rest through the shop. It cleared a HUGE space in my garage.
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Mog · Joined: 30 Dec 2007 Posts: 661 Location: Sydney

Buy and read Adventurers Road by T.R. Nicholson . The story of the 1907 Pekin - Paris Road Trial . My copy was published in 1957 . Do not try and buy the original French version , it will cost you an arm and leg .

peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7118 Location: Edinburgh

I wouldn't call it a library but they occupy about 10' of shelf space.

Peter
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Rootes75 · Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2019 10:23 am Post subject:

I have quite a few motoring related books, I have quite a few complete Caxton Motor Engineer book sets.

I did pick years ago some lovely pre-war Motoring books for students studying the design of motor cars. Very interesting to see the cutting edge technology of the time.
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Riley Blue · Joined: 18 Jun 2008 Posts: 1750 Location: Derbyshire

I haven't counted them but there must be 300 plus, some dating back to the 1900s.

A recent purchase was a collection of early RAC and AA year books, few of which I've read and may never read but they're too nice not to have. One, a 1910 RAC Yearbook contains a list of members but not, unfortunately, their cars.

I'm a sucker for old maps and atlases and have several from the 1920s and 1930s including a 1920 Michelin Guide to the British Isles that contains 50 pages of excursions that I must try.

Most of my other books are motor sport related, some autographed by their authors, though I also have a collection of Haynes manuals accumulated over the decades including ones for cars I've never owned, like a Porsche 914.

I'll never get around to reading them all from cover but that doesn't matter.
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consul 57 · Joined: 09 Nov 2017 Posts: 487 Location: somerset

i had a quick count up of my library and at todays prices it came to over £4000

V8 Nutter · Joined: 27 Aug 2012 Posts: 587

Never counted them but I must have 200 or so mostly concerning American cars. I do have some others such as an incomplete set of Caxtons Modern Motor Engineer, and a similar set covering machine tool engineering.

Geoffp · Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2019 8:54 pm Post subject:

I think I've only got about 40-50 motoring books, mainly margue histories, although I have one volume of Rankin Kennedy's 'Book of the Motor Car' which seems to date from about 1913. I thought I had more, but I do also have at least an equal number of books on road transport or traction engines or railways or local history so the shelves are quite full and that doesn't include my wife's books. I also have a few hundred magazines, all neatly filed in Poundland magazine holders which take up shelving which goes about halfway along the garage. I'm never short of light reading Smile

lowdrag · Joined: 10 Apr 2009 Posts: 1585 Location: Le Mans

It isn't just reference books but catalogues and mgazines here. One wall of my office is racked out five shelves high with it all and when I use the expression that it weighs a ton I reckon that is factually not figuratively. Want an Autocar road test from the fifties? I probably have it, along with 30 years of Motor Sport et al. But mixing this with Rick's thread on copyright, I believe you can buy old Motor Sport copies on DVD now. And what do I do with my 5,000 negatives?