Like most of us, I have a few 'special' books that I can drop into at almost any time and get involved with. Doesn't have to be engine-related, almost anything will do as long as it has an engineering thread of some kind and manages to distract me for a while.
Amongst these are:
"Not Much of an Engineer", Stanley Hooker's biography "Trustee from the Toolroom", Nevil Shute Norway "Development of Aircraft Engines & Fuels", Schlaifer & Heron "Allied Aircraft Piston Engines", Graham White Any Fred Colvin book
The Graham White book is interesting, as it pulls together a lot of the information in the Schalifer-Heron book, while quoting a lot of the stuff that Hooker mentions in his own book, while retaining its own separate identity.
The Nevil Shute book is just a damm good read at any time, and the Colvin books while being either autobiographical or instructional retain the quality of writing for which Colvin was known.
As we seem to be a like-minded group in many ways, do we share any of these books in common??
Peter (Sipping a nice Muscatel with Beethoven's 'Pastoral' on the music machine