Publisher's Synopsis
- How it all started when John Haynes, aged just 16, built an Austin Seven Special and was inspired to write a book on how he had done it.
- The first true workshop manual was published after he helped a friend restore an Austin-Healey 'Frogeye' Sprite, having found that the manufacturer's own publications were totally inadequate from a DIY point of view.
- The growth of the company's HQ in Somerset from humble beginnings in 1972 on the site of an old creamery.
- Expansion into North America, the most important stratgeic step the company has ever made, started when an office was opened in California in 1974.
- The success of manuals all over the world - in all-English-speaking markets and numerous foreign languages.
- The company's book publishing activities - 'much more than manuals'.
