Round the Bend.

A postwar book by R. Brockbank.

This particular book, Round the Bend, dates to the early postwar years and is believed to have been published around 1948, pre-dating other titles such as Move Over! by some years.

The ever-harrassed Major Upsett is again in evidence on the cover, being pursued by (or pursuing?) a gentleman in a turban, some chap cleaning up after the engine lets go in a Maserati Grand Prix car, and a vulture..

As with later books, this is a compilation of Brockbank motor cartoons, sourced from The Motor, The Commercial Motor (lorry magazine), Punch, Lilliput, The Cadet Journal, and Stewart & Ardern Ltd.

The foreword in Round The Bend is by Brockbank himself, where he reveals that (at that time anyway) he himself did not own a motorcar, and, writing in the third person, "... has striven to see and record the point of view of The British Motorist whilst he waited for buses that never came, or, if they did, were too crowded to stop ...".

The opening pages are 'Britain at Peace', and takes a wry look at the life of the automobilist once the war had ended. Later pages touch on foreign motorists, dodgy car dealers, the racing driver, the Army and Royal Navy, learner drivers, even caravanners get a mention within the 64 pages of this classic book.

Other funny old books with a motoring theme to them get a mention in the motorists humour part of oldclassiccar, along with neat old seaside postcards that somehow feature the motorcar.

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