Ken Good died just before he finished this book and it has been ably completed by his widow, Pat, who also painted the splendid front cover. Ken's interest was in the cars the firm manufactured, which brought it down due to the intense competition in the light car class in the 20s; ours, of course, is in the aeroengines of which the company made over 3000 Clerget rotaries, sub-contacting many to Rustons of Lincoln. There is a fascinating chapter all about this, complemented by an interesting technical description of the pros and cons of such engines. It also goes into why they became unpopular, when in peacetime their good power-to-weight ratio became less important than their unreliability. It is also a great story of the rise and fall of a family dynasty, and what dreadful people some of the Gwynnes were! I also enjoyed learning that Elizabeth David, the first of the Media Chefs was a Gwynne, and that Tritton, the co-inventor of the Tank, served his apprenticeship with them. There are some excellent pictures - sadly, two of George V are captioned as being of Edward VII.

This is the sort of book written from the heart by a lover of the subject, that I really enjoy.