First Principles: The Official Biography of Keith DuckworthThis book chronicles the life of Keith Duckworth OBE, the remarkable engineer famous for being co-founder of Cosworth Engineering and creating the most successful F1 engine of all time, the DFV. Although the company's engines are given due prominence, this isn’t an intricate technical examination of their design, but a more rounded look at the life and work of their designer – work which included significant contributions to aviation, motorcycling, and powerboating. |
Contents
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Living with Lotus Chapter 5 Horsepower from the stables | 60 |
Picture gallery 2 | 97 |
Creating a legend Chapter 8 Two golden avenues two dead ends | 127 |
Cosworth takes | 143 |
Of life and loves | 158 |
Turbos on two continents | 176 |
Icons of the Eighties | 223 |
We have to start again | 233 |
Picture gallery 7 | 243 |
Flying from the heart | 254 |
Cosworth after Keith | 264 |
Picture gallery 8 | 275 |
Diesel diversions | 283 |
Picture gallery 9 | 289 |
The marine adventure | 190 |
New openings | 202 |
Picture gallery 6 | 209 |
The microlight legacy | 308 |
Vale Picture gallery 10 | 337 |
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