Louis Coatalen: Engineering Impresario of Humber, Sunbeam, Talbot, Darracq

Description

The only published biography of an important engineer and personality in the industry. Story behind great motor racing successes and some failures. New research into family and links across the automobile design world. Includes many previously unpublished photographs.

Alongside a career in the furnishing trade, Oliver Heal's other abiding interest has always been vintage motor cars, and in particular the Sunbeam cars with which he grew up. He continues to maintain the archive on Sunbeam Racing Cars, but this biography of Louis Coatalen has been given extra depth and colour through access to Coatalen family documents. The outcome of some twenty years research, the book contains many previously unseen photographs and background information. Oliver Heal continues to enjoy motoring in vintage Sunbeams at home and abroad. He is married to Annik, one of Louis Coatalen's granddaughters, and has three step-daughters and a son.