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HIGH SPEED DIARY: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF REGINALD ELLIS TONGUE

by R.E. Tongue

Published by Dove Publishing. 1st. 2002

Very good condition. Reggie Tongue was only 22 when he drove in his first real motor race, the 24 Hour Grand Prix d'Endurance, at Le Mans. This is an account of the life and times of Mancunian Reginald Ellis Tongue based on his diaries, cuttings, books, photograph albums, flying logbooks, and reminiscences he tape-recorded three years before his death in 1992.Large format. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos. 192 pages including index.

Light creasing to corners and top corners of first few pages. Previous owner's address label to inside rear cover. Minor grubby marks to rear cover. Contents clean.

ISBN: 0953414256
Stock no. 1818999

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Contents

  • Introduction by Reggie Tongue
  • An Introduction to Reggie Tongue
  • 1 Early Days: Flixton to Sedbergh
  • 2 Getting Started in Cars
  • 3 Motor Racing 1932
  • 4 1934 and Le Mans
  • 5 1935
  • 6 Era 1936
  • 7 1937
  • 8 Later Motor Racing
  • 9 Royal Air Force
  • 10 Africa to Uxbridge; Usworth to Hucknall
  • Epilogue

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