25/05/2025
EXCLUSIVE ECURIE ECOSSE BOOK BREAKS NEW GROUND
350 numbered copies only
After more than six years of hard work, the most informative book ever written on Jaguar's multi-Le Mans winning Scottish racing team is currently being printed and will be on sale within weeks.
It is filled with unknown facts such as:
The reason David Murray skipped Britain for the Canaries.
The full history of Murray and his family which helped establish Australia from the 1820s.
The true history of the faithful old hard-working bus transporters.
How Ron Gaudion and Lofty England conspired to keep the 1957 Le Mans winning D-Type out of Wilkie Wilkinson's hands before the event.
How Jaguar used illegal reserve tanks at Le Mans.
Profiles on each of the drivers.
Profiles on each of the race cars - and the road Jaguars driven by David Murray and the entire team.
The 116 races contested in that time covered.
Why Jaguar cut ties with Ecurie Ecosse in late 1957.
The massive book is 652 pages large, and includes every aspect of the team in its first ten years while it raced only Jaguar-powered cars.
Significantly, one of the major aspects of the book is the huge input by the late-Ron Gaudion - the only person to prepare and crew the three Le Mans winning D-Types.
He takes the reader right inside the team (and Jaguar), so that soon it is obvious that without his joining Ecurie Ecosse shortly after the 1955 Le Mans race, the Scottish team could NOT have twice won the French classic. Ron's relationship with Jaguar was very close, even while he was at Ecurie Ecosse.
Ron, a young Aussie engineer, was on a working holiday and became the first person taken on by Jaguar to build the production D-Type models. He welded the first frames, and was invited into the Competition Department to build and prepare the 1955 factory racers. He then crewed the winning car.
There was nothing about the revolutionary D-Type technically Ron did not know - and he took all of that knowledge with him to Edinburgh.
This tome has over 750 high quality images, the majority not published before. Many were shots taken personally by Ron.
All 350 books are numbered, and it will not be reprinted.
The price is 150 Pounds.
It is exclusively sold by Horton Books, Unit 14 Hertford Court, Hertford Road, Marlborough Wiltshire SN8 4AW England.
Tel: +44 (0) 1672 514777 or Fax: +44 (0) 1672 514772
Contact them to reserve your copy, or reply to me via this posting.
