Moonraker & JCL Marine Ltd - Colin Chapman's Boat Industry

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Book Front Cover

Chapter One

The Beginning

Chapter Two

First Moonraker Production

Chapter Three

Moonraker and Marketing Development

Chapter Four

Decline of the Buxton Bell Era
(Chapman’s take-over)

Chapter Five

The truth behind the ‘JCL enigma’

Chapter Six

Developments

Chapter Seven

Management style

Chapter Eight

Colin Chapman and flying

Chapter Nine

Beyond Moonrakers

Chapter Ten

Problems facing the boat industry

Chapter Eleven

JCL/Moonraker’s relationship with Lotus

Chapter Twelve

Final days of JCL

Chapter Thirteen

Moonraker post-JCL

Chapter Fourteen

The End…?

Appendix A

The Brochures

Appendix B

The Drawings


The book has received very good feedback from Lotus fans, marine and engineering enthusiasts and other readers alike.

"Sarah O'Hara has written the definitive book about Moonraker boats with considerable input from many of the people involved with the company...".

"..congratulations again for all your hard work and effort...".

An editor of a Lotus Owners club is going to "....arm wrestle with the chief editor....." over who gets to do the review for their next member magazine.

"....I really enjoyed it....I had only been mourning that no Moonraker book had been published 2 weeks ago....."

"Thanks for a great book...."

"With the sad death of Graham Arnold last year, I could not think of anybody else who could of put the book together..."



'Moonraker & JCL Marine Ltd - Colin Chapman's Boat Industry' is a unique piece of work, by Norfolk author Sarah O'Hara, documenting the fascinating history of Moonraker, other JCL models and the business built up by Lotus's radical founder Colin Chapman. Including 91 photographs - 41 in colour and 20 drawings (some previously unpublished).

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Title: Moonraker & JCL Marine Ltd - Colin Chapman's Boat Industry
Author: Sarah O'Hara
ISBN: 1-84280-076-0
Publisher: Nighthawk
Printer: Micropress