From AAA to Zwickau, Karl Benz to Gianni Agnelli, this book's for you

From: The Scotsman | Date: February 22, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

BALDI Frog, Baby Moose and Seven Little Buffaloes are names of car manufacturers which catch the eye while browsing through the updated, three-volume Beaulieu Encyclopaedia of the Automobile. Other delights include Red Bug, O-We-Go, Reliable Dayton - this could be a Damon Runyon character - and FART, which Nick Georgano, right, describes as the "exceedingly unfortunate" acronym for Fabbrica Autoveicoli Rimorchi Torino.

The new price of GBP 95 is a words-for-money bargain, but very painful if you paid GBP 195 for the original two-volume edition published in 2000.

Mr Georgano, a quiet, tweedy ...

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