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Power without glory Racing the big-twin Cooper TERRY WRIGHT, Loose Fillings Sydney, £55, ISBN 978 0 9943661 0 8
THE SUB-LINE on the front cover says 'Racing the Big-Twin Cooper' but this is so much more than that. It's better described in the blurb on the back: 'This book is a new look at the early history of the modern racing car... through the history of world record motorcycles, hillclimb and sprint specials and dirt-track speedway cars.'
And actually, it's a bit more than that too, because in exploring the development of the first Cooper racing cars, and their predecessors in Great Britain and...