Escort RS1800 (Escort Mk II): This is a Rally Giant because it was consistently the fastest most successful & most versatile car in the second half of the 1970s. Developed from the Mk I it was a conventional front engine/rear drive machine which rallied with 2-litre engines of up to 270bhp. Rally successes were legendary
- British (RAC) Safari Acropolis Finland (1000 Lakes) Sweden Portugal Canada & many more. The cars won 17 World Rallies between 1975 & 1981. RS1800s won the World Makes Championship in 1979 & were always close to victory always competitive. Escort drivers like Bjorn Waldegard (1979) & Ari Vatanen (1981) won the World Drivers' Championships. Over the years hundreds
- & this is no exaggeration
- of RS1800s were built for motor sport & were the ideal car for almost any condition in the world because they were very powerful but simple & rugged. The RS1800 was also the layout template which was copied by other manufacturers for cars like the Talbot Sunbeam-Lotus the Vauxhall Chevette HSR & the Nissan GTs of the late 1970s/early 1980s which were really all Escort 'clones'. Ford claims & it may be right that RS1800s have won more rallies at World International & National level than any other car in the world.


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Drawing on first-hand experience of what can happen when you rely on basic paperwork & goodwill alone this book offers a unique insight into the would-be problems & pitfalls of buying a 1964-1973 Ford Mustang. Learn the strengths & weaknesses of Mustangs from an author with many years of experience performing ground-up restorations of these iconic cars. Learn what models & variants are on offer & what popular upgrades are commonly performed by owners & their effect on market values. Whether you want a show-car a daily driver or a restoration project all the key points & checks are here ranging from paperwork to market values & from trim to engine condition. This book is the essential companion when looking to buy one of Americas original Pony Cars. ...

Starting with the early experiments that led to the Model F at Dearborn in 1917 this book follows the development of the Fords on through to the Model N & the E27N to the widely successful Diesel Major & its little brother the Dexta. This accounts details Fordson production in Britain covering both Cork & Dagenham & making full mention of the personalities involved. Many of the little-known prototypes are described as well. A major section of the book is devoted to the American tractor line re-established in 1939 with the 9N built in collobaration with Harry Ferguson. The book concludes in 1964 just before the introduction of the worlwide" 6X range." ...

In 1964 Ford replaced its separate British & American tractor lines with the new 6X range a worldwide" family of tractors designed for manufacture in Basildon Antwerp & the USA. It marked the beginning of an exciting new period in the history of Ford tractors. The next 30 years saw a host of new models & features as the line expanded & evolved towards the machines of the late 1990s with their computer-age technology. It was also a time during which Fords agricultural business grew into an organization of global proportions taking over both the New Holland & Versatile equipment companies. In 1994 Fiat acquired Fords agricultural machinery interests & merged them with Fiatagri to form a new company under the New Holland name. In the late 1990s New Holland is the leading manufacturer in Europe & many of the Worlds markets. In this book the companion to the first part the author gives an account of all the main Ford & New Holland models as well as the company changes & the personalities involved. It provides a comprehensive resource on this period of tractor history." ...

This new book shares the title of Anthony Pritchards landmark book about the intense rivalry between Ford & Ferrari in the 1960s played out above all at Le Mans. The original book published in 1968 when the battle between these two great marques was still ongoing forms the basis of the new project but with rewritten & much-expanded text to include material that was not available at the time. The engaging text is accompanied by a stunning selection of photographs portraying the two marques in atmospheric detail. ...

Economies evolve & are subject to sudden shifts precipitated by legislative changes economic policy major discoveries & political turmoil. Macroeconometric models are a very imperfect tool for forecasting this highly complicated & changing process. Ignoring these factors leads to a wide discrepancy between theory & practice. In their second book on economic forecasting Michael P. Clements & David F. Hendry ask why some practices seem to work empirically despite a lack of formal support from theory. After reviewing the conventional approach to economic forecasting they look at the implications for causal modeling present a taxonomy of forecast errors & delineate the sources of forecast failure. They show that forecast-period shifts in deterministic factors--interacting with model misspecification collinearity & inconsistent estimation--are the dominant source of systematic failure. They then consider various approaches for avoiding systematic forecasting errors including intercept corrections differencing co-breaking & modeling regime shifts; they emphasize the distinction between equilibrium correction (based on cointegration) & error correction (automatically offsetting past errors). Finally they present three applications to test the implications of their framework. Their results on forecasting have wider implications for the conduct of empirical econometric research model formulation the testing of economic hypotheses & model-based policy analyses. ...

The collapse of her brief marriage has stalled Bea Nightingales life leaving her middle-aged & alone teaching in an impoverished borough of 1950s New York. A plea from her estranged brother gives Bea the excuse to escape by leaving for Paris to retrieve a nephew she barely knows; but the siren call of Europe threatens to deafen Bea to the dangers of entangling herself in the lives of her brothers family. By one of Americas great living writers Foreign Bodies is a truly virtuosic novel. The story of Beas travails on the continent is a fierce & heartbreaking insight into the curious nature of love: how it can be commanded & abused; earned & cherished; or even lost altogether. ...

By 1939 thousands of Italian intellectuals teachers & lawyers journalists & scientists had fled Mussolinis fascist government & found refuge in Paris. There amidst the poverty & difficulty of emigre life they joined the Italian resistance founding an underground press that smuggled news & encouragement back to their lost homel&. In Paris in the winter of 1939 a murder/suicide at a lovers hotel hits the tabloid press. But this is not a romantic tragedy it is the work of OVRA Mussolinis fascist secret police & meant to eliminate the editor of Liberazione a clandestine newspaper published by Italian emigres. Carlo Weisz who has fled from Trieste & found work as a foreign correspondent for the Reuters bureau becomes the new editor. Weisz is at that moment in Spain reporting on the tragic end of the Spanish civil war but as soon as he returns to Paris he is pursued by the French Surete by agents of OVRA & by officers of the British Secret Intelligence Service. In the desperate politics of Europe on the edge of war a foreign correspondent is a pawn worth surveillance or blackmail or murder. The Foreign Correspondent is the story of Carlo Weisz & a handful of anti-fascists -- the army officer known as Colonel Ferrara who fights for a lost cause in Spain Arturo Salamone the shrewd leader of a resistance group in Paris & the woman who becomes the love of his Weiszs life herself involved in a doomed resistance underground in Berlin at the heart of Hitlers Nazi empire. ...

Winner of the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2012 for Best Thriller of the Year. Perfect for fans of John le Carre a gripping & suspenseful spy thriller from the master of the modern spy thriller (Mail on Sunday) Six weeks before she is due to take up her position as the first female head of MI6 Amelia Levene vanishes without a trace. Her disappearance is the gravest crisis MI6 has faced for more than a decade. There has been no ransom demand no word from foreign intelligence services no hint of a defection. Should news of Levenes disappearance leak out the consequences would be catastrophic. But for disgraced MI6 officer Thomas Kell the crisis offers a chance for redemption. He is approached by his former employers & ordered to find her. Kells search takes him first to France then North Africa where he discovers an extraordinary secret hidden deep in Levenes past. it is a secret that could fatally compromise Britains national security
- & for which Kell could pay with his life. This is another first-rate intelligent thriller which will cement Cummings reputation as one of the most engaging British novelists writing today.
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Winner of the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2012 for Best Thriller of the Year. Selected by the Sunday Times & the Guardian as Best Thriller. Perfect for fans of John le Carre a gripping & suspenseful spy thriller from the master of the modern spy thriller (Mail on Sunday) Six weeks before she is due to become the first female head of MI6 Amelia Levene disappears without a trace. Disgraced ex-agent Thomas Kell is brought in from the cold with orders to find her
- quickly & quietly. The mission offers Kell a way back into the secret world the only life hes ever known. Tracking her through France & North Africa Kell embarks on a dangerous voyage shadowed by foreign intelligence services. This far from home soil the rules of the game are entirely different
- & the consequences worse than anyone imagines...

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