Caveat Emptor: Prices can vary widely in the collectors’ field, and dealers will try it on. One book below is currently offered online from £195 to over £1000. We paid £35 for our copy.
Design and the Bristol Car
- Publisher: Butterfield Press (published in June 2019)
Design and the Bristol Car contains a description of the evolution of draughting techniques from the shipbuilding days, through aviation design and car design into the CAD-era, interspersed with the life story of Dudley Hobbs, chief designer at Bristol Cars from 1946 to 1976.
The second part of the book contains: Fascinating reports from the Bristol Aeroplane Company visits (by Dudley Hobbs) to Geneva, Lugano and Milan, the Paris and Geneva Motorshows and Carrozzeria Touring / A critical appraisal of the work of Dudley Hobbs by a current car designer / The pre-war history of the BMW 326, 327 and 328, which might be described as the first Bristols.
See also the post in the Newsblog
The Bristol Aeroplane Company: Car Division
by Palawan Press – 2018
The book comprises over 300 high quality factory photographs of car construction, testing and racing with press and publicity shots, all from the 1947- 61 era of 2 litre production under the wing of the Bristol Aeroplane Co.
- Foreword by Sir George White and text by Trustees and supporters of the Bristol Owners Heritage Trust.
- See Palawan website for more details.
Bristol Cars: A Very British Story
- Hardcover 432 pages
- Publisher Haynes Publishing (8 Oct. 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-101844254070
Bristol Cars and Engines
- Hardcover: 160 pages
- Publisher Motor Racing Publications Ltd (10 Sept. 1974)
- Language English
- ISBN-10090054922X
- ISBN-13978-0900549229
Bristol Cars 1946-2012 (A Brooklands Portfolio)
by M. Clarke
- Paperback 368 pages
- Publisher Brooklands Books Ltd (1 Jun. 2013)
- Language English
- ISBN-101855209527
Bristol Cars (C P Press)
by Colin Pitt (Author)
- Paperback: 76 pages
- Publisher: C P Press; First Edition edition (9 Jan. 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10:1841556459
- ISBN-13:978-1841556451
Bristol Cars Ultimate Portfolio
by Colin Pitt (Author)
- 1 customer review *
- Paperback:128 pages
- Publisher: C P Press (4 Sept. 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10:1841558222
A PRIVATE CAR: An Account of the Bristol
by L.J.K. SETRIGHT (Author)
- Hardcover: 491 pages (2 volume set)
- Publisher: PALAWAN PRESS; 1st edition (1998)
- ASIN:B004R30EGQ
Bristol Cars Model by Model
by Michael Palmer (Author)
- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: The Crowood Press Ltd (23 Nov. 2015)
- ISBN-10:1785000764
Bristol: The Quiet Survivor
by Charles Oxley (Author)
- Hardcover: 228 pages
- Publisher: Oxley-Sidey (1988)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10:185421019XA
Bristol: An Illustrated History
by Charles Oxley (Author)
- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: The Crowood Press Ltd (29 Oct. 1990)
- Language: English
Round the World with 10 DPG
by Geoffrey and Hilary Herdman (Authors)
- Paperback: 300 pages
- Publisher: Geoffrey & Hilary Herdman (May 2013)
- ISBN-10:0957616805
Touring Superleggera: Giant among Classic Italian Coachbuilders
by Carlo Felice Bianchi Anderloni (Author)
- Hardcover: 351 pages
- Publisher: Libreria dell’Automobile (1983)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10:2851201743
BMW 328: From Roadster to Legend
by Rainer Simons (Author)
- Hardcover – 1996 (Includes a detailed chapter on the Bristol connection)
- Publisher: Bruckmann / BMW Mobile Tradition; First English Text Edition edition (1996)
- ASIN: B00NYFZNO6
Bristol Owners Heritage Trust 