KIRKDALE AUTO PRESS - ABOUT US
I am Les Brown and am the author of the car book "Special Obsessions" (ISBN - 9781 87295 5360). I am recorded as the author of the book on Amazon (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Les-Brown/e/B09PHRBCJ5?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_2&qid=1642501020&sr=1-2). I published the book (in my business capacity as a sole trader) as Kirkdale Press, of Kirkdale, Wetherby Road, Bardsey LS17 9BB, which is also my home address as recorded on Amazon. The name of my business/publisher (Kirkdale Press) has since been updated to Kirkdale Auto Press, as there is also a Kirkdale Press based in the USA, which sells religious books (eg https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Kirkdale-Press/s?rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3AKirkdale+Press). These are NOT the publisher of the car book 'Special Obsessions', and have nothing to do with me or my business. Perhaps this has been the cause of some confusion as to my identity. Other books written and published by me - Olympic Running! (ISBN 9781 87295 5391) and Rochdale Sports Car Pioneers (ISBN 9781 80068 5482) are all listed with Kirkdale Auto Press as publishers to avoid any further confusion on this issue.
I hope this clears things up!
-Les
SPECIAL OBSESSIONS
ISBN 9781 87295 5360
No other book has attempted to look in detail at the Specials Industry of the 1950s, and much of the photographs and information is revealed for the first time ever. Read what people say about the book published by Kirkdale Auto Press
"Absolutely rivetting and Anne is very cross that I failed to immediately write and thank you rather than be totally hooked on reading it. Some of the facts are startling beyond measure." Bill Woodhouse, Tornado Cars
"It really is FANTASTIC" Steve Hole, Editor, Total Kit Car
"I thought I knew a lot about Specials, but have already found plenty of material that I hadn't seen before." Derek Bentley, Chairman, Fairthorpe Sports Car Club
"Very hard to put it down once I pick it up, even well after midnight!" Malcolm McKay, motoring writer and photographer
"It's a wonderful book in every respect" Christoph Ditzler, motoring journalist Swiss Classic magazine
"FANTASTIC WORK LES!!!, 10 out of 10." Richard Disbrow Ashley/Historic Specials/EB club registrar
FROM CLASSIC CAR WEEKLY, 18/10/17:
From Steve Hole's TOTAL KIT CAR pages
