Maurice A Kelly

Russian Motor Vehicles

Soviet Limousines 1930-2003

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Covers the inception of a policy to build Limousine models in the former Soviet Union, instigated by Marshal Josef Stalin when the first Five Year Plan was initiated in 1927. The book charts the production of all of these cars, from the Leningrad L-1 of 1931/32 to the final examples produced in 2003. With full specifications translated from the relevant primary sources in Russian and Chinese literature, this is a meticulous and unique account of a previously neglected subject.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Veloce Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 259mm x 217mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 755g
• ISBN-13: 9781845843007
• ISBN-10: 1845843002
• Artikelnr.: 29010986

Autorenporträt

Maurice Kelly had a public school education and subsequently matriculated before going into the armed forces, where he was staff on a troopship. He was initially employed in the aircraft industry as a development engineer, and was a member of a team involved in the making of the boundary layer system on the Blackburn Buccaneer NA-39 seaborne fighter; other projects included the manufacture of the first atomic bomb release mechanism that was made by hand, together with various items for the Blue Streak programs. In 1960, he went to sea as an engineering officer in the British Merchant Navy and the Royal Research Service, as well as the Marina Mercante de Republica de Panama, remaining in this capacity until 1979. Since leaving seafaring he has worked as an ISO9000 quality consultant and as a technical author. He has five published works on engineering subjects, and specializes in historical road transport.