40 Motoring Heroes: Pioneers, Inventors, Mavericks, and Game Changers

> 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