Hi Woodsy
Lion was a British weekly comic for boys, published between 1952 and 1974. In addition to the actual comic, and the hardback Annuals, there were a number of other books carrying the Lion name, including this Lion Book of Speed, which has the copyright date 1962.
I found this at a recent Lions Club book sale, for just $1.00 NZ (44 New Pence). The spine has been taped up with brown parcel tape, but the contents are intact.
It measures 10 3/4 by 7 3/4 inches (27 by 19 1/2 cm), and runs to 128 pages including the hardback covers. Black and white text and line drawings, with red on a few pages; and several pages of black and white photographs.
It is rare to find older books like this at the sale, and I was very pleased to snap it up. The contents cover everything that goes fast.
Speed in the Animal Kingdom; cars; motorcycles; bicycles; speed record holders, Father and Son, Malcolm and Donald Campbell; boats and ships; Hovercraft; computers; aircraft; the Schneider Trophy seaplane race; the X-15; trains; snow and ice sports; and finally out in to space...
There are several cut-away drawings of various machines. One of the photos shows a model of the Super Caravelle super-sonic airliner – ancestor of the Concorde.
Anyone got anything like this?
Paul Adams from New Zealand
Those line drawings are real treasures, from the golden age of illustration! SFZ
ReplyDeleteYep, I agree. The covers are fab too Paul. They were exciting times to be a kid and the artists knew what to give us!
DeleteI love those 60's styled illustrations.
ReplyDeleteYour Lion appears to be of more Moonbase interest than my Tiger Annual!
Apart from the futuristic cars article, most of my turned out to be jingoistic Last Gasp of Empire adventure stuff!
Very un-PC by today's standards!
What a line Looey, Last Gasp of Empire, love it! Sounds like a toy line title.
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