The Autoshite Good Book Guide

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Thanks for that link. I buy a lot of out of print books

 

 

Sorry, it's a used book.

 

Unless it's a first edition Minor 1000 Haynes manual with a foreword by W Shakespeare, I'm not paying more than a tenner.

[richardmorris]

Try abebooks.co.uk

[Richard]

I suggested Abe Books earlier, there's only one copy and it's £150.

[scruff]

+1 for the Pressnell book on Minis.

 

That Chapman "worst cars" effort is dire I'm afraid, full of the usual generalisations and some gopping factual errors, I imagine it used as a reference book by whoever is tasked to produce those zany "Top Ten Terrible Transport" lists for MSN news or whatever.

[forddeliveryboy]

 

I know one's a magazine, but there's more good reading in one issue from that era then in many a wordy book.

[plasticvandan]

Here's a few of my favourites in my collection

Bubblecar overload!

[MarvinsMom]

some further suggestions from my collection-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

they are all to my mind great books, the last one written at the height of the chaos at BL when it looked like they were on the road back from the brink.

 

and the first one is interesting just too see how bmc marketed their new baby.....

 

what can i say, i like minis

 

 

this last one is full of some wonderful things, mad motors. it was a fav when i was younger.

[plasticvandan]

I have in my collection a book called "The Mini story" by Lawrence Pomeroy,published 1964,as seen here:

http://theminimag3.itgo.com/Feb0006.html

It was given to me by a woman who claimed to have been a secretary to issigonis in the 60s,is it worth anything?

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

I thought the Alan Clark book was a bit crap TBH.

 

I bought the Paul Skilleter Morris Minor book in WH Smiths in Yeovil, October November 1981. It had just come out. 

[Craig the Princess]

 

Really enjoyed this, went into the story of the importing to the USA.

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[The Reverend Bluejeans]

This is essential Shitter reading:

 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/British-Leyland-Chronicle-Crash-1968-1978/dp/147756067X

 

 

It outlines just why BL was such a very, very bad idea and that BMC management such as Issigonis and Harriman should have been pout in charge of the canteen/bog cleaning. They had no idea at all. The sad this was, Joe Edwards (no relation to Michael) was MD of BMC replacing Harriman and he had set in motion a credible rescue plan and had the respect of the workers too. Criminal. 

[cros]

Have enjoyed most of Mr Rolts non-fiction books, nicely written and all that. This one has some cars and describes road testing one of the first British diesel engined lorries- a bit smokey.

[New POD]

Roos, Daniel, Ph.D.; Womack, James P., Ph.D.; Jones, Daniel T.: The Machine That Changed the World : The Story of Lean Production, Harper Perennial (November 1991), ISBN 0060974176, ISBN 978-0060974176

 

and

 

Toyota Production System, Taiichi Ohno, Productivity Press, 1988

 

These 2 books changed my working life.

 

The first predicts the demise of the shitest car companies, and the mass globalisation of the better ones, and why.

 

The second explains that Lean Manufacturing is just Industrial Engineering done correctly, at all levels in the business.

[inconsistant]

Here's some that I've enjoyed reading. These were charity shop finds:

 

 

 

 

 

These 3 are all excellent:

 

 

 

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Anybody reading owt good at the moment? I've just finished 'The Road to Muckle Flugga' by Phil Llewellin.Got to be honest I thought it was a bit disappointing, clearly the guy has some fantastic stories to tell but this book has a string of very brief 10-page stories about each of his adventures. If you can imagine driving a petrol Sherpa from the UK to Pakistan through commmunist-era Eastern europe, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan etc, and condensing that whole story into 10 poxy pages, you'll have a measure of what the book is like. Or driving from Buenos Aires to Ushuaia in a Ford Ranger via the old welsh colony in Argentina, and summing that up in 8 pages. Thin.

 

Always looking for shite book recommendations so hit me up if you have any!

[somewhatfoolish]

I think the author is a fellow shiter but can't remember the name;

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nothing-handles-like-rental-car/dp/1542376882

 

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Confessions-quality-control-balls-ups-factories/dp/1532719795/

 

[cros]

One thing puzzled me about this bunch of books-

Why on earth would you plagiarize the jacket design from a cheapo CD box set?

 

[BorniteIdentity]

I think the author is a fellow shiter but can't remember the name; https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nothing-handles-like-rental-car/dp/1542376882 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Confessions-quality-control-balls-ups-factories/dp/1532719795/

 

This be him, I'm sure.