The Royal Automobile Club’s Pall Mall clubhouse library was the perfect location for the book launch. I spent many weeks there, maybe even months, poring over books and 1930s magazines, and that lovely long room, lined with oak book shelves and with open fires at each end, is quite literally my favourite room in London.
It was still more apt that as I spoke, I was under the watchful eye of Claude Johnson, ‘the hyphen in Rolls-Royce’ and the esteemed first secretary of the Club.
My sincere thanks go to the Club for hosting the launch, to Clubhouse Librarian Trevor Dunmore, Head of Motoring Jeremy Vaughan, and Motoring Events Coordinator Pippa Schulp for their hospitality, to my son Ben for wielding the card reader so efficiently, and to everyone in the audience.
