Tells the story of the rise of Jaguar Cars Ltd from its humble beginnings as the Swallow Sidecar Company, to its emergence as one of the giants of the British motorcar industry.
William Lyons, later Sir William, was one of the founders of the Swallow Sidecar Company, ... more
that after the war became Jaguar Cars Ltd. Sir William guided the company over fifty years from its humble beginning in a garage in Blackpool, to becoming a giant...
Advantages: A humorously irreverent look at British history. Disadvantages: None for me. Too English for some?
*** The Author ***
Sean Lang studied history at Oxford, has written conventional history books and reviewed textbooks in The Times Educational Supplement.
He has been teaching history for over twenty years in schools and university, and he thanks his students for helping to inspire him to write this entertaining history book, which is not the kind usually found in school.
Other ?For Dummies? books by this engaging historian that I intend to read are European History and Twentieth Century History.
*** Who Would Appreciate It? ***
I believe that the readers who would appreciate this book most will have the sort of basic knowledge of Britishhistory gained by completing a British secondary school education, even if they thought history lessons were tedious and didn?t pay much attention. I would hope this book would ...
Advantages: Fantasitc footage of the last days of steam Disadvantages: None
This is another in the eminently professionally produced DVD programmes on steam train released through Green Umbrella.
With the Very Best of British Steam of Yesteryear, you are given a real feast for the eyes and also, for the memory, of course. Well, for those of us old enough to remember when steam trains regularly plied their business up and down the main lines of the United Kingdom.
The last regular steam runs in Britain came to a very sad halt in August 1968. That's slightly under a year before the first manned space flight to the moon, for those interested in transport trivia.
Without an unsung bunch of dedicated enthusiasts and professional and semi-professional film makers in the previous two decades, these wonderful steam trains would not be available to the general public. They would only exist as the personal ...
history of the ashes
Back in eighteen eighty two a test match series between england and australia started a regular feature for cricket fans. The eighteen eighty two series provided a victory for england, and it was the australian's who got a request granted to play a fourth test match, and whilst they won, it was england who got to keep the famous ern where the ashes are kept. The series is played every two years, though only once every four years back here in England.
this dvd lasts two hours eleven minutes, and it provides a historical platform in terms of cricketing. clips shown of great catches, supreme batting performances, and legendary bowlers of cricket's all time, hall of cricketing fame. The dvd also is interesting to see how world war one and two affected english cricket.
the results of the ashes are mainly ...
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Tells the story of the rise of Jaguar Cars Ltd from its humble beginnings as the Swallow Sidecar Company, to its emergence as one of the giants of the British motorcar industry.
Tells the story of the rise of Jaguar Cars Ltd from its humble beginnings as the Swallow Sidecar Company, to its emergence as one of the giants of the British motorcar industry.
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