Lot of Vintage (45-55) "Floyd Clymer" Books/Motor Scrapbooks (15), Clymer Motors

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USED
Lot of Vintage (1945-55)
"Floyd Clymer"
Books/Motor Scrapbooks (
15 total
), by Clymer Motors
Packaging Condition: GOOD - But minor wear on covers and edges (see pics)
Selling together as lot (15)
Lot includes:
"Floyd Clymer's Historical Scrapbooks" - No. 1 (Missing No. 2), No 3-8
Steam Car Edition (Vol. 1), History of Motor Vehicles (1769-1946)
Ford Model T Edition (Vol. 1)
Foreign Car Edition (Vol. 1) - 2 copies
The Salt of the Earth (AB Jenkins' Own Story of Speed) book
Fastest on Earth (Capt. G.E.T. Eyston)
BONUS Automobile History Scrapbook, vol. 1 (Wiglesworth-Chasteen)
All books made between 1945-1955
Dimensions: Each approximately 5.5" (W) x 8" (H)
Minor wear on covers and edges (see pics)
"Fastest on Earth" (1946), published by Floyd Clymer (175 pages) - Captain G.E.T. Eyston has been collecting the material for this book over a long period. He has broken more records with different types of cars than any man living, and has a unique knowledge of his subject. Up till now there has been no complete history of attempts upon the Land Speed Record. It begins with the efforts of the pioneers in 1898, when an electric Jeantaud car set up a record of 39.24 m.p.h., a fine contrast with the modern speeds of over 350 m.p.h. Ignoring his own magnificent achievements, the story of which is told at the end of the book, Captain Eyston extols the feats of his predecessors. Famous names like Parry Thomas, Eldridge, Segrave, and Campbell enrich the story of man's conquest of speed. Captain Eyston has been at pains not only to give intimate glimpses of these renowned drivers, but to give due praise to the designers and to the humble mechanics, who all play their part. Eyston's own story of his record-breaking run on Thunderbolt, at nearly six miles a minute, brings home to the reader the trials of the record-breaker, and the thrills of the eventual triumph. The book is illustrated with photographs which have been collected from all over the world. Some of them are from the private collections of Sir Malcolm Campbell and Captain Etston. Those of the early cars have been exceptionally difficult to obtain, and are of unusual interest. "'Fastest on Earth' is a book to read for its thrilling story, and to keep for its historical value." ~ Floyd Clymer
"The Salt of the Earth" – Ab Jenkins’ Own Story of Speed (1945, 2nd printing), published by Clymer Motors (78 pages) - Ab Jenkins and Wendell J. Ashton tell the story of pioneers in the taming of the West and the taming of speed. Those that grew up and knew Ab Jenkins and those that made the Salt Flats famous, marveled at their accomplishments. These men were accepted as human, with frailties and talents, driven by a need to tame speed. The Bonneville Salt Flats was known for some time. Pioneer scouts had seen the broad expanse of salt a decade or more prior to the trek of the ill-fated Donner Party in 1846. The salt caused delays to the wagon train, which helped to put them behind schedule and thus face destruction in the snows of the Sierra Nevadas that marked them for infamy. Trails were blazed to the north and to the south of the barren wastes. Rishel set out to cross the desert in 1896 to chart a course across the salt pans for an intercontinental bicycle race. Rishel returned to the lakebed in 1907, this time in a Pierce Arrow. Teddy Tetzlaff discovered for himself the unique qualities that the salt desert provided in his speed runs of 1914. Rishel and Tetzlaff set the example that inspired Ab Jenkins to take his need for speed to the salt. He became a tireless promoter of the salt flats and of his native Utah and the pioneers who settled there. Racecars can be designed and built today that will break old records, but can we also design and build men to equal what Ab did? On oval courses at the salt flats, Ab would set records of one, three, six, twelve and twenty-four hours at a time. He set records for 50 all the way up to 5000 Kilometers and from 50 to 3000 miles, all in one effort. Ab drove 24 hours or more, straight through, and the Mormon Meteors hardly ever gave him any trouble. He wanted the world to know, especially the Europeans who were always looking for a better place to run their unlimited land speed cars. Jenkins was elected the mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah and used his position to promote the state of Utah as a place to visit. His efforts paid off when Brits such as Sir Malcolm Campbell, Captain George E. T. Eyston and John Cobb came to the salt flats and set their records.
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