A remarkable picture of one of Britain’s most prolific inventors. Granville Bradshaw was an engineer and inventor of extraordinary vision. His designs for early aeroplanes and engines (The Dragonfly), pioneering cars and motorcycles (ABC) quickly brought him fame. His gambling machines made him a fortune which he then managed to lose in a shares swindle! His life spanned the entire development of aviation and motor industries from the very early days right up until the classic era of the ’50s. This is a really detailed and absorbing book full of insight and careful research which places Bradshaw’s engineering genius into the context of his time.

Barry M Jones is a former industrial engineer and well known author and biographer on the history of British design and engineering. Previous publications have included The Panther Story: the story of Phelon & Moore; Editor of The Rugged Road by Theresa Wallach and her biographer; The Village Bus Remembered, and several works on the British tape-recorder industry.

Contents:

Introduction

Aviator

Aero engines

ABC Radial engines

ABC Powered aeroplanes

Post-war ABC aero-engines

ABC motorcycles

The Sopwith-ABC motorcycle

Skootamota

Oil cooled motorcycles

Bradshaw’s prophecies

Phelon & Moore

ABC cyclecar

Belsize-Bradshaw

Inventor extraordinaire

Bradshaw at war

Peoples car

Bradshaw pulsation motor

Toroidal engines – Project Omega

Wankel opposition engine

Twin-toroidal gas generator

Conclusions - patentee extraordinaire

Appendices: Walton Motors

Family

Addresses

Patents

Index

Granville Bradshaw: A Flawed Genius? - Barry M Jones October 2008 Softcover, 189 x 246 mm, 288 pages, 200+ illustrations ISBN 978-0-9556595-4-6