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Flywheel - Memories of the Open Road - Tom Swallow and Arthur H Pill
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Flywheel is a facsimile reproduction of a unique collection of Motoring Magazines produced during World War 2 in a Prisoner of War camp in Mulhberg, Germany. Each edition was drawn and scripted by hand and circulated around the camp for the members to read and pass on. The ?rst being produced in May 1944 and the last in March 1945. Flywheel depicts a nostalgic look at a former life away from war and prison camps as seen by the magazine?s ?staff? ? describing motoring adventures before the war, road tests of motor cars and motor cycles, features on the quest for the ?Ideal Motor Car?, a speculative edition featuring the 1944 Motor Show, motoring advertisements, editorial comment and even a letters page. The illustrations and text were produced largely from memory using whatever raw materials the staff could lay their hands on, employing considerable ingenuity in the face of adversity. Flywheel is a selection of the best of the original magazines and is filled with humour, compassion, enthusiasm and authority. The drawings and sketches are both graphic and realistic, the text full of wit and highly credible. These combine to evoke the courage of ordinary men who, in spite of extremely harsh living conditions, created a warm and refreshing collection of magazines which are now reproduced for the whole world to enjoy. Royalties will be donated to The Red Cross, with- out whom many POW?s would not have returned home.
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