Granville Bradshaw: A Flawed Genius?

First edition, first printing.  vi, 282pp, with black and white figures and illustrations in text.  Laminated, illustrated stiff card covers.  8vo.  Card covers are a little rubbed on extreme edges else volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. An engaging biography of engineer and inventor Granville Bradshaw (1887-1969), designer of aero-engines, cars, motorbikes and gambling machines. He designed the Star Monoplane, including the engine, for Star Aircraft when he was only 19 - a plane he later flew; and was co-founder of ABC Motors.  He designed the ABE Dragonfly - its radial aero-engines were extremely advanced for the time and the Government placed large orders for it during the First World War.