Overview

> How did an English pub inspire a legendary road safety feature? > Which F1 driver had to wear leg braces as a young boy in hospital, yet started his own winning team? > What prompted a young woman from Alabama to invent the windscreen wiper? > Who was the “bloody fool” from Yorkshire who master-minded the VW Beetle’s rise from the ashes of the Second World War? 40 Motoring Heroes offers a fact-filled, illustrated insight into motoring history, not only for petrol heads and motoring enthusiasts, but anyone with a passion for fascinating people. The little-known men and women featured include inventors, innovators, engineers, financiers, and others at the sharp end of automotive and social history. Their stories shine a light on ingenuity, determination, fights against prejudice, and even bravery, self-sacrifice and destitution. Of course, being a motoring hero does not equate with sainthood or even likeability; a fair number of the book’s subjects demonstrated unpleasant human qualities but we acknowledge their professional achievements. Not all made fortunes out of their ideas, but their ideas added to the wealth of our enjoyment of motoring. Compelling, intriguing and full of surprise, the must-read biographies in 40 Motoring Heroes showcase the struggles, adversity and perseverance of these motoring marvels. 

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Author:   Rod Ashley
Publisher:   Hawksmoor Publishing
Imprint:   Hawksmoor Publishing
ISBN:  

9781914066771

ISBN 10:   1914066774
Pages:   214
Publication Date:   18 November 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

1. Mary Anderson 2. Bertha Benz 3. Nils Bohlin 4. Violette Cordery 5. Tony Crook 6. William Knox D’Arcy 7. Rudolf Diesel 8. John Boyd Dunlop 9. Gilbern 10. Alma Green 11. Donald Healey 12. John D Hertz 13. Major Ivan Hirst 14. Soichiro Honda 15. Leslie Hore-Belisha 16. Leslie Hounsfield 17. Mercédès Adrienne Ramona Manuela Jellinek 18. Camille Jenatzy 19. Charles F Kettering 20. Frederick W Lanchester 21. Dorothy Levitt 22. Rev. Peter John Lunati 23. Bruce McLaren 24. Garrett Morgan 25. Pat Moss Carlsson 26. Alex Moulton 27. Ben Nevis (Versus Henry Alexander Jr.) 28. Ransom E. Olds 29. Gerald Palmer 30. Armand Peugeot 31. Dorothée Pullinger 32. Billy Rootes 33. Percy Shaw 34. Alfred P. Sloan 35. Charles E. Sorensen 36. Freelan Oscar Stanley 37. Preston Tucker 38. Felix Wankel 39. Margaret Wilcox 40. Women Workers at Fords of Dagenham

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