Joseph Grose and the Motor Car: A True Pioneer

by Alan Burman (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  1998

  $14.48

  Joseph Grose began his working life in Northampton's leather trade, then, through athletics, racing `penny-farthing' bicycles, he was led into the pioneer world of the automobile. Having introduced the motor car to Northamptonshire, the firm he established specialised in producing bespoke coachwork of high quality, for which it became world famous. This book is a little gem ... very readable .... splendidly illustrated ... Histories of this sort are all too rare. The Automobile