Alf Francis: Racing Mechanic: His Own Story

Alf Francis: Racing Mechanic: His Own Story as told to Peter Lewis.

Publisher: G. T. Foulis & Co., 1958, First Edition, 2nd impression.

Good hardback, no jacket. Green boards have some bumping to edges. Sellotape marks inside board and to endpapers. Name to title page. Pages are tanned with minor foxing/marks. Frontispiece is missing. 336 pages, illustrated with many b&w photos.

"Behind the scenes of almost any public spectacle, there is a presiding genius, whose job it is to make sure that everything is organized down to the last detail to enable those in the public eye to give their best. In athletics he is the team coach; in the theatre the stage director and in motor-racing he is the chief mechanic. His work is arduous and, especially during the season, almost unending, while his efforts are unsung and almost unknown to the outside world. But on him to a very large extent rests the responsibility of maintaining his drivers' reputation."

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