Title: Lucky All My Life: The Biography of Harry Weslake
Author: Jeff Clew
Edition: First edition, 1979
Format: Hardcover, with dust jacket
Publisher: G. T. Foulis & Co. (Haynes Publishing Group, Somerset)
ISBN: 9780854292547 (ISBN-10: 0854292543)
Language: English
Pages: 176
Dimensions: —
Publication Date: 1979
Genre: Biography, Motor Racing, Engineering
Condition: Very Good
Description:
Lucky All My Life is the biography of Harry Weslake (1897–1978), the Exeter-born engineer behind many famous racing engines, written by the motoring and motorcycling author Jeff Clew. Weslake’s cylinder-head designs gave car, motorcycle and aero engines more power, and his name was on speedway engines at World Championship level and on the Gurney Weslake Formula One engine, which is shown on the jacket. The book follows his career and his engineering and is illustrated with black-and-white photographs. This first edition has its pictorial dust jacket, with a portrait of Weslake and a photograph of the Gurney Weslake engine on the front. It is a good book for motor racing and engine enthusiasts, and for readers of British engineering history. This copy is in very good condition.
Title: Lucky All My Life: The Biography of Harry Weslake
Author: Jeff Clew
Edition: First edition, 1979
Format: Hardcover, with dust jacket
Publisher: G. T. Foulis & Co. (Haynes Publishing Group, Somerset)
ISBN: 9780854292547 (ISBN-10: 0854292543)
Language: English
Pages: 176
Dimensions: —
Publication Date: 1979
Genre: Biography, Motor Racing, Engineering
Condition: Very Good
Description:
Lucky All My Life is the biography of Harry Weslake (1897–1978), the Exeter-born engineer behind many famous racing engines, written by the motoring and motorcycling author Jeff Clew. Weslake’s cylinder-head designs gave car, motorcycle and aero engines more power, and his name was on speedway engines at World Championship level and on the Gurney Weslake Formula One engine, which is shown on the jacket. The book follows his career and his engineering and is illustrated with black-and-white photographs. This first edition has its pictorial dust jacket, with a portrait of Weslake and a photograph of the Gurney Weslake engine on the front. It is a good book for motor racing and engine enthusiasts, and for readers of British engineering history. This copy is in very good condition.
