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
