Product Description

This inexpensive photographic history of Vespa, first published in 1993, receives a much-needed overhaul to bring it up to date, and includes the addition of some colour imagery. This appealingly quirky book captures the personality, individuality and style of the world of Vespa through an eye-catching array of period photographs, including Vespa's imaginative promotional material. Celebrities and girls seem ever-present through the pages, but there is plenty of technical interest to satisfy mechanically minded Vespa enthusiasts.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #35992 in Books
• Published on: 2009-06-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 112 pages

About the Author
The late Eric Brockway was managing director of Douglas for much of the time the company made Vespa scooters in the UK under licence. Peter Henshaw, who has carried out the update for the second edition, is a specialist scooter and motorcycle author, and lives in Sherborne, Dorset.

Customer Reviews

The book is full of illustrations but short on history.
There is a four page introduction at the begining of the book giving a brief history of Vespa scooters imported into Britain through the Douglas company. The rest of the book is basically pictures each accompanied by a caption. Some of the pictures are interesting but others have been added just to pad out the book. Overall the book lacks any cohesion and calling it a illustrated history is misleading. I bought this book hoping to learn about the history of Vespa scooters but I am disappointed with the lack of information contained within the book.

An average book.
I ordered the book expecting it to be full of interesting facts about Vespas. But I was dissapointed at the lack of it. There are plenty of photos in it, but theyr'e not that interesting. Plus they're all black and white.

Erics Book-top notch!
Few people could claim to know about Vespa scooters more than the late Eric Brockway.
Eric was the MD of Douglas motorcycles in Kingswood,
where they built and imported Vespas from 1946 at their Bristol plant.
The book doesn't pretend to be a complete guide to Vespas History, it merely shows it from the (very important) Douglas perspective.
It is however, very well priced for a good introduction to the Douglas built Vespa models and a good insight into the origins of the VCB and scootering in Geral in the 1950's.
No scooter book collection would be truly complete without this book!